On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:21:08 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote:
>
>I admit I had never looked at the details of FILEDATA=RECORD. It appears
>that IBM has taken RFC 4506 and made a small change so their
>implementation is incompatible with anything that actually follows the RFC.
>
Is that:
RFC 4506 XDR: External Data Representation Standard May 2006
??? Which section?
>Why would IBM do that? Implementing the RFC format seems reasonable.
>Implementing an incompatible variation, less so.
>
Because they can. Why EBCDIC?
-- gil
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