Re: RFE UTF-EBCDIC

[Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are right Gad;

My guess is that the team behind ACS (5250) will have some work to do :)
And for BosaNova users - perhaps it will not be the best solution, and have
to work as usual. There you still have the UNICODE option.

We also need to do quite a lot with our IceCap product - but that will
definitely be implemented.



On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 1:41 PM Gad Miron <gadmiron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just wondering,
>
> How existing non-browser emulation packages will be affected?
> (we use BosaNova emulation)
>
>
> Gad
>
>
> > date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 12:54:57 +0100
> > from: Niels Liisberg <nli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
> > Therefore I have posted an RFE to IBM to please implement UTF-EBCDIC as
> an
> > alternative CCSID. UTF-EBCDIC is basically UTF-8 but where UTF-8 has
> ASCII
> > as the base charset, then UTF-EBCDIC will have EBCDIC. This means the
> > national chars like ?????? wil occupy two bytes each and abcABC will
> occupy
> > one byte each. Perhaps we need to extend some columns, but that is a much
> > simpler task than converting the entire system to UNICODE.
> >
> > This will let the database and programs run unchanged and give the client
> > the option to set this CCSID at system level. Open source and spring
> boot (
> > Java microservices) will convert from UTF-EBCDIC to UNICODE and/or UTF-8
> on
> > the fly. This will let the transformation process focus on applications
> and
> > not CCSID and eventually bring the IBM i platform in position in the
> global
> > infrastructure while dealing with legacy application.
> >
> > So please, gentlemen, please go and vote for this RFE so we can end this
> > discussion once and for all.
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=138076
> > Read more here:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC
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