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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/TPF Product Family
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on May 2, 2016

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Support UTF-EBCDIC in the B2B Parser for JSON and SOAP

Recently UTF-EBCDIC was added functionality for the B2B Parser which has been very helpful. We recently determined that JSON and SOAP was not included in that support. We would like JSON and SOAP to be included in the support included under the B2B Parser.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 8, 2017

    IBM does not intend to implement this request.
    UTF-EBCDIC was added to allow Unicode data to be handled by the XML parser. The JSON parser already handles Unicode data however. If any data is stored, it should really be converted back to a more standard Unicode format from UTF-EBCDIC using the tpf_convert_ebcdic_to_unicode API as UTF-EBCDIC is a XML parser only encoding. A more standard format of UTF-8 is supported by both JSON and DFDL parsers. DFDL can potentially be used to resolve having to worry about something that is in either JSON or XML format since very little code needs to change for it to handle either. In additional, DFDL will handle the differences in storing data in different encodings (EBCDIC v UTF-8) and make such processing invisible to the z/TPF application.

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