John McKown writes: >This might help people to convert to z/OS. Of >course, there is still that nasty EBCDIC >issue for any conversion.
That's just not correct. z/OS imposes absolutely no requirement to use or to convert to EBCDIC. Zero, zip, nada. Store and manage everything in Unicode if you like. (Many do and do like.) Or Plutocode, or McKowncode. Choose whatever character encoding you like. Interoperating with EBCDIC-encoded data requires, well, interoperating with EBCDIC-encoded data, whether z/OS or another operating system manages and stores such data. z/OS provides excellent interoperation capabilities should you wish to use them. But such interoperation requirements exist, if they exist, no matter where you run. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
