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Michael,
My apologies for not being able to meet your specific request.
Besides the EDCICONV approach, you could also use the Unix System Services program iconv e.g. "iconv -f IBM-1141 -t IBM-1047 filename.original > filename.converted" for encoding coversion. Additionally, you may want to submit an idea request on automatically converting datasets encoding with DSFS.
Thanks for reporting the bug regarding no error message was given with incorrect encoding. The fix will be in the next PTF. We will keep you informed here as well.
Thanks
JC Yao
Hi IBM,
very sad that this is declined. With which argumentation is it declined?
Sorry, regarding your last questions:
We're using IBM Host On Demand
We actually convert our scripts by EDCICONV
This is very unhandy. We wanted to use DSFS for the Python Scripts that are contained within MVS datasets. Unfortunately there is neither an option to automatically convert the content of MVS datasets using DSFS. This would be a perfect usecase for DSFS (either with #encoding 1141 or with DSFS automatic conversation). Both features seems to be never devlivered . So DSFS seems absolutely useless if you haven't any ex UNIX guy in the Sysprog team, what is very unlikely. The normal application developer neither requires DSFS as he would more likely use sth. like VSCode / Eclipse.
Python scripts are expected to be in either ISO8859-1 or IBM-1047. Using other code pages should have resulted in an error message. We will fix it in the upcoming PTF.
What emulator are you using? Will you be able to convert your scripts to the supported code pages?
With "#encoding: cp1141" there is no error message, nothing.
We want to write the Python Scripts in 1141, because our Emulator setting is 1141. The Python scripts are located within PO datasets and we want to call them with the DSFS path from USS directly or in batch. So for this, we opened the RFE (support for cp1141).
Is this regarding writing Python script in cp1411? It is not supported but should have produced an error message. We will look into it.
On the other hand, Python can process cp1411 data.
Please confirm.