OMVS Encoding

Jeffrey Smith included in Mainframe

2022-01-08 About 200 words One minute

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OMVS encoding characters

This character brackets [ ] and others that don’t convert to a readable form was driving me crazy.

enter this command when starting a USS session: omvs convert((BPXFX111))

Example, in man pages converts this line:

pax Ý-cdEnvz¨Ý-H|-L¨Ý-f archive¨ Ý-o type¨ Ý-s substitute¨ … Ýpattern …¨

to this line:

pax [-cdEnvz][-H|-L][-f archive] [-o type] [-s substitute] … [pattern …]

much easier to read. 👍

Another command option for readability, while in ishell:

while browsing a file

Command ===>DISPLAY CCSID 1047

The DISPLAY command allows you to view data that would not normally be displayed.