Re: [netrexx-pipelines] XLATE questions

[René J. <rvj...@xs...>]

Hi Mike,

That is good news. The bad news is that I verified some bugs in XLATE. When I made that I only had the BatchPipeWorks manual for testcases. It clears a lot of cases but it also fails some of them. 
That it works for you does not means it is not going to be fixed.

René.


> On 27 Jun 2022, at 14:48, hp...@we... wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> First, the good news: I replaced my simple attempt of
> 
>> xlate 1 00-FF 3A 20-3F 20-3F 40-5F 00-1f 60-66 40-46
> 
> (what failed) by a even more simple 'a: xlate 1' and feeding the
> transliteration table (I prepared on another system) to secondary
> input. This option works as designed.
> 
> Bad news, I have questions (one remark and a question):
> 
> i) the NetRexx Pipelines Guide and Reference shows in the RRT
> diagram (RRT = Rail-Road-Track) for more than a single inputRange
> of XLATE to put it in brackets, but, as the repeat-track implies,
> to repeat also the brackets. That's wrong, same error in author's
> edition.
> 
>> pipe literal aaaaaaa!xlate (1 5) a b!term
>> baaabaa
>> Ready;
>> pipe literal aaaaaaa!xlate (1) (5) a b!term
>> FPLXLA052E Unknown translate table "(5)".
>> FPLSCA003I ... Issued from stage 2 of pipeline 1.
>> FPLSCA001I ... Running "xlate (1) (5) a b".
>> Ready(00052);
> 
> Same holds true for NetRexx Pipelines, with a slightly different
> error message and deviating RC.
> 
> ii) the NetRexx Pipelines Guide and Reference shows as only
> "documentation" for XLATE a RRT-diagram, but no additional
> information than which of the default-table arguments are not
> implemented. (BTW, shouldn't 'UPper' stand above the "main track"
> since it's the default if no other arguments are entered?)
> Marked as not yet in Pipes for NetRexx are 'OUTput' and 'TO/FROM
> CODEPAGE n', but not 'INput'. For CMS input and output options of
> the XLATE stage are related to the input and output settings.
> 
> Question: what is under Windows the corresponding parallel of CMS
> input setting?
> 
> Best,
> M.
> 
> 
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