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Character Encoding - chtag

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:02:48 -0500

I recently installed IBM Z Open Automation Utilities and Python on z/OS and learned a new command I haven’t or needed to use before.

The chtag command for character encoding for EBCDIC.

After editing some Helloworld.py file using vi editor I recevied the follow error when I try to run the python code.

/home/#>python hello.py
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x97'

I needed to change the codeset to IBM-1047 for python to run correctly on USS z/OS.

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:16:56 -0500

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. 👍