On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:02:17 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >"The objective of this criterion is to send data from one system to >another one that has different representations of character data, and >retrieve it without loss. Often the "do not convert" choice is not >available. For example, data stored in a System/370 database is >configured to have all its graphic character data in one CCSID. If it >acts as a remote repository for data from a PC application, or from an >application in another System/370 using a different CCSID, the data >must be converted to the configured CCSID. The data is intended to be >retrieved by the same application without loss when it is converted >back for use in its original CCSID." > >There's more, but I think the notion of Round Trip Integrity is clear enough. > Why does IBM have this compulsion to be different from everyone else and invent its own terminology rather than using a conventional, well-understood word such as "bijective"?
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