>I believe JCL's set of "allowable" characters is only a fraction of any code page. And probably only common code points.
The problem with probabilities? They may fool you :-) The famous "national characters" @, #, and $ in some code pages (all hex values): CP 285 (UK, etc.): 7b, 7c, 4a CP 273 (Germany, etc.): b5, 7b, 5b CP 500 (International): 7c, 7b, 5c CP 280 (Italy, etc.): b5, b0, 5b -- Peter Hunkeler -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN