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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories z/OS Application Development
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 24, 2014

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CCSID / Codepage 1377 EBCDIC with HKSCS-2008 support should be added to RDz Client V8 & V9

Currently, the RDz V8 & V9 Client only support Host Code page IBM-937 for Traditional Chinese. However, IBM-937 does not support HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set) standard. RDz Client should be enhanced to support Host Code Page IBM-1377 (superset of IBM-937) which supports HKSCS-2008 standard. All Hong Kong & Macau z/OS customers need to use Host Code page IBM-1377 on z/OS and the related z/OS development tools so that it can support EBCDIC with HKSCS-2008 standard for Application Modernization Initiatives.

The support should include two levels:
1) z/OS File System Mapping for Host Code Page 1377
2) Host Connection Emulator for Host Code Page 1377
(Remarks: FITS# MR0518122851 for Host Code page 1377 support for IBM Personal Communications)

Please refer to APAR OA43021 which describes z/OS CCSID 1377 (and CCSID 1375) for HKSCS-2008 support with surrogate (SIP) mappings.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 23, 2021

    Thank you for taking the time to submit an enhancement for IBM Developer for z/OS. Customer input is invaluable to our products and many new functions and enhancements result from feedback. All input is very important to us to improve and server our customers.

    We realize this Request for Enhancement has been in our backlog for quite some time and it is currently still not in our roadmap for the next two years. Instead of keeping it indefinitely in our backlog we have decided to respond with a decline.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    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 - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 18, 2014

    Understand that RDz also uses ICU for code page conversion.
    Please note that the ICU has finished the code page (or CCSID) 1377 for HKSCS-2008 EBCDIC support.

    Please see the following URL:
    http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/10709
    http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/review/10709

    Could you please add the Host Code Page 1377 support to RDz Server and RDz Client ASAP?

    Thank you very much.
    Best Regards,
    Kelvin

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 25, 2014

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.

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