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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 26, 2021

PD Tools - File Manager V14.1 - MQ files editor: automatic conversion to EBCDIC?

We will need to use a template with MQFMT_NONE as recommended, when in doubt about the original encoding of messages in a queue.
But it would be much better if, by default, the message is displayed in this original encoding, with the possibility of displaying it in EBCDIC, like what the DISPLAY command allows in the ISPF browse: that would avoid parsing errors and that would make the display in File Manager consistent with that of ISPF.
Is it possible to transmit this evolution proposal for a future version of the product ?

Thank you.

Idea priority Low