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ITschak Mugzach
Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, if you move non-mainstream characters around by FTP, 3270 file
> transfer, etc., you may get some interesting translation surprises from
> time to time.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Tony Harminc
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Rexx and hex data strings
>
> On 27 October 2016 at 12:56, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What I am trying to reference a comment block in a rexx program. The
> > SOURCELLNIE() function does work, including if program is compiled.
> > Still have a problem with some odd number of '/*' or '*/' that may be
> > included in the text, but I can manage that by replacing it the
> > another pair of characters.
>
> You might do better to safely encode the binary (hex) data using something
> like BASE64. This is easy, though it does enlarge the data by a factor of
> 1.3...
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