On 28/11/2016 2:14 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
David Crayford wrote:
He does! We all do. Most of the people whinging about EBCDIC on here
also work on *nix systems. EBCDIC is a terrible anachronism but
unfortunately we're stuck with it.
I do indeed play on *nix. I came to traditional IBM record-based
business systems from the Land of Nix.
In my time I've worked on many different systems. Mainly MVS and it's
descendants but also AIX and AS/400 machines. AS/400 is also an EBCDIC
platform and shares the same woes
as z/OS, but has the benefit of being tightly integrated with AIX so can
spawn a process to run native in AIX which is all good. I've ported many
open source projects to z/OS over the
years and EBCDIC is the killer.
I do not whinge about EBCDIC. EBCDIC is part of the austere and
idiosyncratic nature of traditional IBM record-based business systems.
I find such idiosyncracies charming, much as some unfashionable aspect
or attribute of a beautiful woman accentuates her beauty.
EBCDIC is no beauty! She's an ugly hag! Medusa comes to mind with every
snakes head being a different EBCDIC code page. I recently received an
e-mail from a sysprog at a Danish bank
asking me if it was possible to enable my z/OS Lua port to handle a
Scandinavian code page. I hacked up a solution but running iconv to
convert source modules added significant overhead
to a fast language.
I whinge about scp because that comes from my world and IBM
mis-implemented it on z/OS!
Don't whine! If you're unhappy with scp then why don't you port it to do
what you want?
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