Perhaps you might consider a custom FTP translation table that
changes those nulls to ASCII spaces ('20'X).
Michael
At 03:40 PM 11/15/2024, Baessler, Derek wrote:
This might be more of a Windows question rather than z/OS, but I'll
give it a shot here.
This deals with transferring some reports on z/OS (stored in
DSORG=PS, RECFM=FBA datasets) to a .txt file on a Windows PC. These
datasets have some x'00' bytes on some lines.
On Windows 10, Notepad is able to open and display the files after
transfer. It seems to ignore the x'00' bytes or just interpret them
as spaces, but the rest of the text in the report is perfectly readable.
On Windows 11, Notepad seems the think the files are encoded in
Chinese and they are not displayable.
We can view the files with Visual Studio Code on both Windows 10 and
11. It displays NUL where the x'00' bytes are, but they are
otherwise readable in both.
We've tried transferring with both SFTP (Tectia) and FTP. We get the
same results with both- the transferred .txt files are readable in
Win10 Notepad, but not Win11.
We couldn't find where to convince Notepad on Win11 to display these
correctly. Has anyone run into something similar or have any ideas?
The customers that are running into this issue aren't IT people and
usually don't have admin rights to install something like VS Code or
Notepad++ on their PCs. So allowing them to continue to use standard
Windows Notepad would be preferable.
Obviously the best thing to do would be to update the program that's
writing these reports on z/OS to not write the x'00' bytes. That
program probably hasn't changed in 20+ years more. We could probably
do something with DFSORT/ICETOOL as well to replace the x'00' bytes
with x'40'. But hoping for a quick setting fix on the Windows 11 side.
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