Isn't there some Japanese code page (Katakana) support in z/OS? Some z/OS fields will take any bit value -- for example, the JOB statement Programmer Name field. For reasons unnecessary to this thread I have gone into Hex mode in ISPF and stored various unprintable values there, and everything works just fine. They show up in SMF 30 as entered. So you could put Étienne there.
You *might* be able to have ÉTIENNE as your RACF name (not userid, name) -- I have not tried. z/OS DB2 -- I know, not what you asked -- has I believe excellent and full code page support including Unicode. z/OS Unicode Services is all about code pages and so forth. The C compiler I think has some varying code page support. z/OS FTP supports code page specification. How about USS? Where is @Gil when you need him? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 4:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS and code pages On 13 September 2016 at 19:09, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but that's never stopped me before: :-) > If my name were "*Étienne*", would I be able to have that as a TSO userid? No. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
