Tag Archives: CCSID

Need a Translate Table? – Unicode Services Edition

In an earlier post I discussed generating translate tables using CDRA and promised that I might cover doing the same using Unicode Services. Well, here is the update. In many respects, using the Unicode Services character conversion routine CUNLCNV is quite a bit simpler than the CDRA interface. cunitbl.c The header is in SYS1.SCUNHF so… Read More »

Need a Translate Table?

Back before z/OS had Unicode Services available to do character transactions before code pages, there was something called CDRA. As of z/OS 1.13 it is still there as a part of DFHSMSdfp but it is only briefly mentioned. There is more documentation here. IBM has been a leader in keeping track of internationalization issues, as you… Read More »