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Submitted by: xgadwei
Submitters Company: GAD eG
PUBLIC
Requirement Number and Title: PGAD0712-1525 File Description to support codepage (CCSID) definition for z/OS Host languages
Homework Assigned: No
Requirement Category: Core Technology
Current Status: Investigate
Closed Status:
Session:
Requirement Value Category: System Management - Operations
Product Affected: DF/SMS
Problem Description: Today z/OS Host Compiler COBOL and PL/I have also Unicode support which means that program variable definitions can be in Unicode. The data processing with files is not so easy because Unicode data can expand from 1 M-^V 4 bytes if UTF-8 representation is used.
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Hi,
UTF-8 support has been added in Enterprise COBOL for z/OS. V6.3. Please test. If new functionality is still needed, please open a new RFE.
Thanks.
Accepting the RFE on the grounds that we can use this request to improve our documentation on how to work with files encoded in UTF-8. Please let us know if you have any concerns.
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 #65618 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 - z Systems 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