Can you find out the IP address the file is coming from? If so, then you could look up the country by looking in the assigned range table. https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28363/How-to-convert-IP-address-to-country-name
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 8:08 AM, scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Phil/Gil: > > Correct, sorry been a week, CP285 is a UK EBCDIC codepage. > But my question still stands ... > > 1. PC/Linux -> sends ascii encrypted data to IBM z/OS , like I mentioned a > STC in Cobol > 2. The STC decrypts and then converts to EBCDIC... > > My issue is CAN i query a codepage or CCSID on z/OS to find out what the > customer is using without a parameter of some sort. > > Regards, > > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Knowing what country the data is coming from would greatly reduce the >> possibilities to one or a handful of code pages. >> >> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: >> > scott Ford wrote, in part: >> > >> >>The ASCII is CP 285 UK ..but we have to support all .I am making sure I >> > >> > >> > >> > That's not ASCII. This is the point others have been making: you can't >> > really say "ASCII" unless you mean x'00' through x'127' *and nothing >> else*: >> > all you can say is "It's not EBCDIC". Once you start talking other "code >> > pages", you either need to know which it is, or you have to make an >> > assumption. Period. >> > >> > >> > >> > And from my reading, code page 285 is an EBCDIC code page. >> > >> > >> > >> > Sorry to sound like a hardass about this, but I'm not sure your question >> has >> > a meaningful answer, based on what you've said so far. >> > >> > >> > >> > .phsiii >> > >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> >> -- >> Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA >> Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > > -- > > > > *IDMWORKS * > > Scott Ford > > z/OS Dev. > > > > > “By elevating a friend or Collegue you elevate yourself, by demeaning a > friend or collegue you demean yourself” > > > > www.idmworks.com > > scott.f...@idmworks.com > > Blog: www.idmworks.com/blog > > > > > > *The information contained in this email message and any attachment may be > privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise protected from > disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or > use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to > the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any > printout thereof.* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
