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Visual Studio Code Extension for Zowe, which lets users interact with z/OS Data Sets, Unix System Services, and Jobs on a remote mainframe instance. Powered by Zowe SDKs.
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Characters are not displayed correctly in VSCODE explorer extension #3196

Open johnpdscott opened 1 month ago

johnpdscott commented 1 month ago

I found I need to specify "encoding": 285 so that £ characters are not changed when edited using zowe explorer. However, a £ character used in a DATA SET name or member name is being presented as $ when using zowe explorer or when returned from a TSO command issued by zowe explorer

Steps to reproduce the behavior: In 3270 create a dataset or member that contains the character £ e.g. MY.DATASET£ or MEMBER£

Connect using VSCODE ZOWE EXPLORER My profile contains "encoding": 285

List the dataset or member under DATA SETS or via command issued from VSCODE Right click on the zosmf profile and issue TSO command listc or issue zowe command in terminal zowe zos-tso issue command "listc"

Expected behavior Expect the character to be displayed the same as it is on mainframe using ISPF or TSO

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RichardSGFR commented 1 week ago

Hello, I have a similar issue with Zowe Explorer v2.18.0. I use code page 1147. On mainframe my member is named ".MELGN4E" for example, but on VSCODE on the tree explorer I see "ÚMELGN4E"

traeok commented 1 week ago

This issue is due to a discrepancy in the z/OSMF REST APIs where the encoding is respected for data set contents, but not when listing data sets.

We have filed an issue on IBM Ideas to support a custom encoding when listing data sets and data set members: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4279

It is marked for future consideration, but please feel free to "thumbs up" the idea to express your interest. Note that you will need to sign up or log in with an IBMid to access this page.