Re: READING A TAB DELIMITED FILE IN ILE COBOL

On 08/06/2010, at 10:27 AM, CRPence wrote:

As I recall, the DSPF converts the presented data from an ASCII
CCSID to an EBCDIC CCSID [for a text stream file anyhow],
irrespective of job CCSID. I had always used the DMP command to get
the raw hex values of the data in a STMF.

I recall someone saying that on these lists in previous e-mail (you or Bruce Vining?) but when I check the DSPF hex output for a CCSID 819 stream file I see:

48657265 20697320 61206C69 6E65206F 66207465 Here is a line of te

The job is in CCSID 37 and the text is legible so must be in that CCSID but the actual data is tagged with 819 and the hex codes appear to be ASCII. The spaces are the obvious marker being X'20' instead of the EBCDIC X'40'.

So it appears that in hex mode DSPF shows the hex for the raw data but converts the displayable section to the job CCSID. Perhaps this was changed at V5RyMz because I do recall that earlier (V4) implementations showed the hex of the converted data.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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