On Tuesday, 01/31/2006 at 09:08 CET, Dieltiens Geert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have always used English as our "system-language" on VM and VSE. But > globalisation forces us to add languages like Arabic, Russian, and Chinese to > our applications. The data(mostly peoples names and addresses etc.) will be > managed using 3270-CICS-applications (using IBM PCOMM terminal emulation), and > will also be sent using FTP to/from other platforms as well. > > Is it possible to manage all those languages in the same VM/VSE system? Where > do I start? Any books? Anyone willing to share her/his experiences in this area? CMS and CP do have the concept of setting the command and message language on a per-virtual machine basis, and CMS has APIs that deal with code page translation, but it's not clear that's of any use to you since you're using CICS apps. z/VM networking applications such as FTP, LPR, and NFS allow the end user to control the EBCDIC-ASCII translation tables. FTP includes support for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Support varies depending on whether you are talking about the client or the server. Here are some sources of information for z/VM: 1) The "Using Translation Tables" chapter of the VM TCP/IP Planning and Admin book 2) http://www.vm.ibm.com/euro/. While this site focuses on the Euro, it is really about translation tables. 3) http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/tcpxlate.html provides some additional translations that have been requested in the past few years. (I suppose I ought to look at getting them in the product!) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
