On Thursday, 09/17/2020 at 02:35 GMT, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > > b) 3270 data stream support for Unicode > > c) XEDIT and BROWSE support for (b) > > > As ISPF does? I have never had a DBCS 3270. I understand > they exist. I have set a SBCS x3280 to CP-880 and nicely > viewed with ISPF a UTF-8 file containing a mixture of > Latin and Cyrillic characters. I didn't need to supply > ISPF any command options -- it picked up the CCSID from > the file tag.
Hmmm... using the ancient DBCS support. An interesting idea to consider as an intermediate step. (I did some ASCII/EBCDIC DBCS translation updates, too.) > OpenExtensions strikes me as a relatively halfhearted design. Where I think it suffered the most is the inability to ACCESS a BFS directory like you access an SFS directory, with all that implies. But being able to jump into and out of the shell or to use the OPENVM command mitigates that to an extent. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services IBM Z Delivery Practice ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott
