Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

2001-01-23 Thread Markus Scherer
I would like to add one item to this discussion: Recently, someone from the IBM S/390 group told me that they had decided to store and use Unicode on S/390 as UTF-8/16/32. They will not use UTF-EBCDIC. I am not aware of anyone inside or outside of IBM who does use UTF-EBCDIC. (There is another

Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

2001-01-23 Thread Lisa Moore
10:18:35 AM To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe I would like to add one item to this discussion: Recently, someone from the IBM S/390 group told me that they had decided to store and use Unicode on S/390 as UTF-8/16/32. They wi

UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

2001-01-17 Thread tracey kelly
I am investigating using the Unicode standard to store and forward Chinese characters in a mainframe (IMS) environment. Basically we want to receive Chinese into the system, encode into UNICODE, send it to the mainframe and store on the IMSDB. At a later stage, then decode back into Chinese for

Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

2001-01-17 Thread Mark Davis
- Original Message - From: "tracey kelly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 06:30 Subject: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe I am investigating using the Unicode standard to store and forward Chinese characters

Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

2001-01-17 Thread lisam
Within the IMS database, any form of data can be stored. Beware, however, that certain parameters, such as the transaction name, must always be in EBCDIC. While the database itself can handle Unicode in any format, you have to be careful about how you work with that data - the IMS Transaction