Just to be pedantic, aren't ~all~ characters hex characters? That is, they can
be expressed in hex. I suppose (but I'm not sure) that "non-hex character" is
intended to mean a character that can be expressed directly, eg a space can be
expressed as '40'x or as ' '. Whereas a tab character in EBCDIC needs to show
up as '05'x; there's no way to insert it into my data with the <Tab> character.
('05'x? Yeah, I think that’s right.)
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2023 15:48
A likely offender is instream NETDATA, which could have any character, even
non-hex in any position. Most characters are non-hex.
--- On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:30:03 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
>Oh has that come back to byte people!! (data stream(s) having any hex
>character in any position).
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