EBCDIC code page 930 supports Japanese kanji and single byte katakana

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> On Sep 13, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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