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Enterprise COBOL, starting with Enterprise COBOL V4, supports UTF-8 in the same
way that Java provides support for UTF-8. In the COBOL language, as in the Java
language, UTF-8 data is processed using UTF-16 data items (variables). In Java, UTF-16
is referred to as Unicode, in COBOL, UTF-16 is referred to as USAGE NATIONAL.
Even better than Java, COBOL actually has the capability to process some UTF-8 data
directly in the language, including the following language features of Enterprise COBOL:
- XML PARSE support for UTF-8 (COBOL V4 and later)
- XML GENERATE support for UTF-8 (COBOL V4 and later)
- 8 Intrinsic Functions SPECIFICALLY for UTF-8 (COBOL V5 and later)
- JSON GENERATE only produces UTF-8 texts (COBOL V6)
For more info, you can refer to the ""Processing UTF-8 data" section of the Programming Guide.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - COBOL Compilers
Component - Miscellaneous
Operating system - IBM z/OS
Source - zBLC
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - z Systems Software
Product - z/OS
Component - LE
Operating system - IBM z/OS
Source - zBLC
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #65517 in product z/OS.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - zSeries Software
Product - z/OS
Component - LE
Operating system - IBM z/OS
Source - zBLC
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - zBLC family
Product - zBLC
Component - zBLC Requirements
Operating system - IBM z/OS
Source - zBLC