On Jul 7, 2023, at 11:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I extended Matt's test. The 3 national characters plus the 12 special characters in the JCL Ref. have identical code points in 037, 500, and 1047. The Ref. doesn't mention "037" anywhere. I suspect the authors are in denial concerning the existence of other code pages. I’d say that code pages aren’t particularly relevant to JCL processing. JCL uses a set of byte values. Most of those byte values have a common interpretation across many if not most of the code pages in the “EBCDIC” family. As you noted, all of them have the same interpretation in three commonly used code pages. Most possible byte values aren’t acceptable to JCL, only the ones in the “syntactic character set”. (In some places you can “sneak” other values in between single quotes, of course, but JCL treats those things as opaque sequences of bytes.) Talking about code pages for JCL just confuses things, so I think the manual authors were wise to avoid mentioning cp037 or any other code page. -- Curtis Pew ITS Campus Solutions curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
