The original question was posed on StackOverflow here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76569347/what-are-the-supported-code-points-for-special-characters-for-valid-z-os-datas
There is a whole set of answers (opinions) on the subject. I did some testing by creating a file in USS in CP047 with the characters “@#$” and then used iconv to convert them to a variety of code pages and compare the results. Some conversions failed but when looking at the code pages that failed they didn’t appear to me to be what I would consider mainstream. For the ones I’m familiar with they all converted correctly. The command was 'iconv -f 1047 -t 37 special > converted;chtag -t -c 37 converted;cmp special converted’ I changed to the encoding of 37 to other code pages and most worked fine. You can find the list of cps supported by issuing 'iconv -l’ and there are a lot of them. Thanks for your comments and feedback. Always interesting how a thread will go on such a topic as this. Matt Hogstrom “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom > On Jul 5, 2023, at 3:00 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
