On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:02:47 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: >On 2023-06-05 18:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> Porting to USS has (at least) two significant hurdles: EBCDIC >>> >> How much is that mitigated by Enhanced ASCII? What residual >> problems remain? Unsupported library functions? > >A couple of additional problems you can encounter: >- code that ASSumes that lower case alphabetic characters collate > higher than upper case alphabetic characters; >- code that ASSumes that all lower case alphabetic characters > are in a contiguous range of hex values (similar for upper case); >- code that ASSumes that digits collate lower than alphabetic > characters. > Does the Enhanced ASCII support cover all those problems? Have you a counterexampl?
>Some years ago, I was investigating porting a well-known database >package that shall remain nameless to z/OS USS, and found that the code >had a lot of the above. > Did you compile it in Enhanced ASCII mode? Were the data EBCDIC or ASCII? -- gil \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
