On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:21:01 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote: >On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:15:07 +0000, David Booher wrote: > >>I have noticed when you are transferring a windows file containing a "not >>character" (x'AC') using ASCII transfer to the mainframe, it gets converted to >>"backslash" ( \ x'B7') when stored. >> >>Is there any way to get the extended Windows ASCII characters to transfer >>correctly? > >I suspect that the default SBDATACONN at your site is (1047,IBM-850), which >would translate x'AC' (which is the "1/4" character in codepage 850) to x'B7' >(which is the "1/4" character in code page 1047). > >If you use "quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1)" (if your transfer is >started from the windows end) then x'AC' will be translated to x'E0' which is >the "not character" in codepage 1047.
Correction: to x'B0' which is the "not character" in codepage 1047. > >I don't know which codepage you have that tells you x'B7' is a backslash. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
