In <[email protected]>,
on 03/22/2012
at 04:17 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>This may be another weird desire on my part. But I'm wondering why
>IBM does not enhance the QSAM and BSAM access methods to support
>the OPTCD=Q and CCSID= parameters on the DD statememt to work
>with datasets on media other than tape.
This is a case where asking for too little is worse than not asking at
all. I'd like to see support for translating among arbitrary code
pages, including UTF-8, using better translate tables than those used
by the old OPTCD=Q support.
Have you submitted a requirement, with a business case?
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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