Sorry to revive an old thread. I'm seeing the same problem as described below: <property environment="env" /> is failing on z/OS when specifying a non-EBCDIC encoding in -Dfile.encoding. Verbose output is: ... [property] Loading Environment env. [property] Ignoring: [property] <lots of garbage characters here...> ...
I'm using Ant 1.7.1 on IBM JDK 6 (IBM z/OS build pmz3160sr3-20081108_01 (SR3)). I think I've tracked the issue down to this code in org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Execute.java, which forces the raw output of the env var command to be treated as Cp1047 bytes, regardless of -Dfile.encoding (this code is present in 1.7.1 and trunk): [...] public static String toString(ByteArrayOutputStream bos) { if (Os.isFamily("z/os")) { try { return bos.toString("Cp1047"); } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) { //noop default encoding used } } [...] If I remove this behaviour and simply return bos.toString(), <property environment="env" /> loads correctly irrespective of whether -Dfile.encoding is set to a non-ebcdic encoding. Just a guess: perhaps that code was a work-around for older JDKs where file.encoding didn't affect env, and should now be removed? Regards, Robin Anuradha Weeraman wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm having what appears to be some character set related issues when > running Ant on z/OS under USS. I have tracked down the issue to the > <property environment> tag which doesn't seem to be able to pick up > environment variables and spews ASCII text when the following > IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS variable is defined: > > -Dfile.encoding=ISO8859-1 -Dconsole.encoding=IBM-1047 -Xnoargsconversion > > The ASCII text, when converted to EBCDIC appears to be environment > variables, so I'm guessing that Ant internally expects the environment > variables in EBCDIC (possibly from the output of /bin/env) which > somehow gets converted to ISO8859-1 due to the file.encoding > parameter, leading to its confusion. > > Ant 1.5.3-1 is bundled with the version of Maven that I use, and it > requires the IBM_JAVA_OPTIONS to be set. > > Has anyone experienced this before? Does anyone know if Ant is capable > of handling custom file.encoding as in this case? > > Regards, > Anuradha > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ant-on-z-OS-tp5429644p22832757.html Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org