What's the default ENCODING for SLC on Mainframe?

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Our default encoding for SLC on z/OS is open-edition 1047 (which differs from EBCDIC-1047 in that characters x15 and x25 are transposed) but you can set it to use EBCDIC-1141 in the SLC CONFIG.

 

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You can change the encoding in the CONFIG member of CNTL data set.

This member looks like this:

• WPS SYSTEM CONFIG FILE CONTAINING SYSTEM OPTIONS
  BLKSIZE=27998
  BYLINE
  CENTER
  NOCHARCODE
  DATE
  DB2SSID=DB2
  DKRICOND=ERROR
  DKROCOND=WARN
  DSNFERR
  ENGINE=WPD
  NOERRORABEND
  FILEUNIT=CYL
  FILESPPRI=1
  FILESPSEC=1
  …

Alternative encoding can be set like this:

ENCODING=EBCDIC1141