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Status Future consideration
Workspace Test Accelerator for Z
Categories Early Development Testing
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 6, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

DBCS character set(1364) support

All EBCDIC data is interpreted as Codepage-1047 (English) and then converted back to UTF-8, which is sometimes inaccurate.

if 1364 DBCS character set is supported, then this problem can be solved.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Oct 30, 2025

    Test Accelerator for Z (TAZ) supports DBCS in the test case editor, recording data, and running tests.
    In the result view, only the data item names in DBCS are supported. However, if the mismatched data or the expected data includes DBCS, it cannot be displayed in DBCS format and will instead be shown in hexadecimal in the result view.


    [Korean settings]

    1.   Set file.encoding = “MS949” for JVM

    One of the followings
    (A) Invoke IDz on Windows Korean
    (B) Invoke IDz with JVM option -Dfile.encoding=MS949

    2.     Preferences Importer > COBOL > General
    Platform : z/OS
    Code Page Selection: 1364
    (Note) Only numbers, not starting with IBM-

    3.     Preferences Importer > COBOL > More COBOL options
    Compile time locale name: ko_KR
    ASCII code page: IBM-1363 ( If ko_KR is selected in the above, it’s set automatically)
     

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  • Guest
    Jun 4, 2025

    The codepage IBM-278 was reported previously in this: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IDZ-I-2196

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  • Guest
    Jun 3, 2025

    Another customer using host code page IBM-278 has reported the same issue. So this is not limited to DBCS encoding.

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