The same problem exists on PCs; unless you stick to ACII displayable characters, all bets are off.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 9:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:27:38 -0400, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >>I like the addition of "regular expressions" to DFSORT. > >Thank You. > >The Announce letter does not go into the details of the line item. The >DFSORT Application Programming Guide has all the details that can answer >your questions. Either way two versions of regular expressions are >supported: > And there remains the nightmare of determining which CCSID is used for special characters in regular expressions. ISPF Edit uses the CCSID of the attached terminal. I don't know that it yet specifies what's used in batch. As a consequence of using the terminal's CCSID, macros are not portable among terminal types. Similar problems might arise with library DFSORT control files. I suppose if SYSIN is a UNIX file tagged with CCSID, DFSORT might respect the tagging. Does it do that? I hate EBCDIC! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
