On 3 May 2011 01:30, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm wondering what IBM-MAINers like to use for editing Unicode (UTF-8, > UTF-16, and/or UTF-32) "files" on z/OS. Are you asking what people are currently using, or what they might like to see? > There are of course graphical > options (notably Rational Developer for System z) which work great, but for > this question I'm more focused on text editors that meet the following > attributes: > > 1. Accessible via TN3270E (i.e. "3270 editors") and/or Telnet (to z/OS UNIX > System Services) -- i.e. "old school" terminal mode editors; > 2. Support editing UTF-8, UTF-16, and/or UTF-32; > 3. Support sequential (QSAM), VSAM, PDS/PDSE, HFS/zFS, DB2, and/or IMS data > (i.e. "whatever you can imagine"). I've thought for some years that a Unicode 3270 would ideally be based on UTF-EBCDIC ( http://unicode.org/reports/tr16 ). This would provide the most compatibility with those single-byte characters most commonly used, but with the ability to edit multi-byte as needed. Of course it rquires a (fairly small) change to the 3270 data stream architecture as implemented on both the terminal/emulator and application ends. Sadly, UTF-EBCDIC, although invented by IBM 10+ years ago, has never taken off. And this time one can't even blame the Windows or UNIX mainframe-haters. So many z/OS APIs could have been changed one by one to support UTF-EBCDIC... Too late. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
