The answer may be in compiling it to be Unicode based.   Gonna look into it 
with the extra 'round tuits.  

> On Feb 19, 2016, at 6:28 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> AFAIK that version is strictly EBCDIC, intended to be run using JCL in batch 
> jobs accessing EBCDIC datasets.  It uses a customized EBCDIC version of the 
> PDCLib library routines (public domain C library code).
> 
> You could conceivably recompile the GNU toolchain using that GCC and have an 
> EBCDIC toolchain, but that is a lot of work.
> 
> Not that I wouldn't love to have that toolchain, but finding those darn round 
> tuits is just plain difficult.
> 
> It may be that Paul has already completed some parts of the toolchain, but I 
> have lost track of what he has made available and sourceforge is not 
> responding to me at the moment so I can't check the download list.
> 
> Peter
> 
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> Subject: Re: On sort options orignally: zfs question root growth
> 
>> On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:00:10 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
>> 
>> http://gccmvs.sourceforge.net/ Paul Edwards has a version running on
>> MVS 3.8 that will recompile.  Runs under XA and ESA and z/OS too. I am
>> sure he would help solve any bugs in your version, if different.
> How well does it do with UNIX files?
> 
> Does it work with GNU configure?
> 
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