Going just from memory here -- too lazy or too inconsequential to look it up.
1. Yes, the bit has gone away. 2. It never did much. After all, CLC or MVC does not care if the data is ASCII, EBCDIC or Klingon. All it ever did was control the sign nibble in packed results: C and D for EBCDIC, some other sign configurations for ASCII. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...) On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 06:54:56 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote: >Indeed, there's a bit in the PSW indicating whether it is running in >ASCII or EBCDIC, isn't there? :-) > Used to be. I doubt that it's still functional. Did COBOL ever exploit it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
