I had the same problem with UCS images that had the fold bit on.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 8:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK I ran into that type of debugging on a shared IBM 3278 with that switch set to show all caps. It probably took me 15 minutes to figure out why JES2 was telling me "DSN=" was invalid in the JCL I just modified. It looked fine on the screen, and of course I was 100% convinced JES2 was broken. On 11/19/2018 2:57 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > In my first IT job, we had Raytheon clones there were serviceable enough but > had a curious quirk. There was a rocker switch that flipped the entire > display into upper case. Not the actual data, just the display. Made for some > interesting debugging. Still don't understand the intention. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 2:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK > > On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> wrote: >> >> S/360 machines I worked on had a switch in the PSW to set them in ASCII >> mode. I don’t remember or know of any software that made use of this. So >> that bit was eventually required to be ON to force DAT or XA. I have >> forgotten what that bit was “stolen” for now. >> > > Right. The expectation was that routines would check the bit and generate > output in the appropriate codeset, and eventually everyone would be using > ASCII. Instead, everyone ignored the bit and generated EBCDIC, so the bit was > reused for something else (I can’t remember what either.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
