On 8/26/25 15:05, Tony Harminc wrote:
...Seems like a perfect use case for the much derided UTF-EBCDIC. ...What need would that address?It would provide compatibility with APIs that allow EBCDIC characters, as UTF-8 does in the ASCII world. What need does UTF-8 address? ...
Are you assuming that restrictions on data set names and member names would likewise be relaxed? Otherwise it avails little. I'd prefer to compose JCL in UTF-8, which most desktops nowadays grok and have JES honor the filetag. -- gil]
