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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 17, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

vim and ebcdic support

If you use the --version command on vim you can see the following (abbreviated):

>vim --version|more
VIM - Vi IMproved 9.1 (2024 Jan 02, compiled Nov  6 2025 07:57:02)
Included patches: 1-1830
Modified by IBM_OEF_1.1.0.7
Compiled by IBM_OEF_1.1.0.7
Normal version without GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl                 -keymap              -sound
...
-ebcdic              +packages            +visualextra
...

The -ebcdic indicates that vim is not able to handle ebcdic files. It would be very useful if it could, e.g. when you connect by putty to the system.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Jan 5, 2026

    All of the IBM OEF tools are built in ASCII mode, but they still support I/O on EBCDIC files as long as you have appropriately tagged your files. (using chtag) 

    Let us know if there's a specific issues with the current support.

     

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