Hi Sonali, Kafka doesn't really care about EBCDIC or any other format - for Kafka bits are just bits. So they are all supported.
Kafka does not "read" data from a socket though. Well, it does, but the data has to be sent by a Kafka producer. Most likely you'll need to implement a producer that will get the data from the socket and send it as a message to Kafka. The content of the message can be anything, including EBCDIC -. Then you'll need a consumer to read the data from Kafka and do something with this - the consumer will need to know what to do with a message that contains EBCDIC data. Perhaps you have EBCDIC libraries you can reuse there. Hope this helps. Gwen On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 5:14 PM, <sonali.parthasara...@accenture.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > This might seem like a silly question, but does kafka have support for > EBCDIC? Say I had to read data from an IBM mainframe via a TCP/IP socket > where the data resides in EBCDIC format, can Kafka read that directly? > > Thanks, > Sonali > > ________________________________ > > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, > proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it > in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any > other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Where allowed by local law, > electronic communications with Accenture and its affiliates, including e-mail > and instant messaging (including content), may be scanned by our systems for > the purposes of information security and assessment of internal compliance > with Accenture policy. > ______________________________________________________________________________________ > > www.accenture.com
