On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:55:50 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:31:56 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >>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. > >Really? > >Can I code PARMLIB in Unicode? >Can I get z/OS messages to be issued in Unicode? >Can I operate the system with a Unicode console? >Can I specify input to IBM utilities in Unicode? >Can I issue TSO commands in Unicode? > >I could probably ask many more questions like these. > >Unless the answer to all of these is "yes", your "absolutely no requirement to >use" is false. > I'm waiting for Timothy's answer and apologia.
>User data only? Sure. That is considerably more restricted. > And even there I see biases in string constants coded in programs. HLASM has EBCDIC self-defining terms, but not ASCII self-defining terms. IEBGENER can probably deal with Unicode data set content, but not Unicode data set names. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
