CP-037 isn't actually what is specified in "Character Sets" in the z/OS MVS JCL Reference book. It might as well be, but IBM chose a very political way to document it. In fact, "037" isn't found *anywhere* in z/OS MVS JCL Reference!
The result is that you will find that many non-US shops use non-US EBCDIC character sets for theeir TN3270 terminals, and then they use national and special characters for DSNAMES and symbols in JCL. The catch is that whatever they use must have hex representations for the supported characters that match CP-037. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com PS> The implications of IBM not being explicit about the codepage has nasty modern implications. Take for example the (UTF-8) JSON API for z/OS "Restfiles and Datasets". On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, at 2:00 PM, John McKown wrote: > All JCL is CP-037. This predates any idea of code pages in the OS. The JCL > converter/interpreter only works with that encoding. > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 13:18 Matt Hogstrom <m...@hogstrom.org> wrote: > > > I recently ran into a question that I didn’t know the answer to. The > > question was, what code page are dataset names and other z/OS artifacts > > coded in? Since the special characters like #, $ and @ are different in > > codepages 1047, versus 037, etc does z/OS use one code page for these > > artifacts and translate if a data set is created with JCL created with 1047 > > and is later accessed using an 037 code page for instance ? > > > > I suspect someone out there has experience and knows the answer. > > > > Matt Hogstrom > > m...@hogstrom.org > > > > “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." > > — Hogstrom > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
