In
<ofe33189b1.4a8f7060-on48257c15.001e5f0f-48257c15.001ee...@sg.ibm.com>,
on 10/31/2013
at 01:35 PM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> said:
>It does not (if referring to ported applications),
Ported applications do not run in a vacuum.
>and repeating a falsehood
Such as the claim that z/OS does not require EBCDIC.
>EBCDIC support is required if and only if there is a requirement to
>operate on/with EBCDIC-encoded data.
Water is wet.
>There is no requirement to store user data in EBCDIC,
That's only true if you carefully define "user data" in such a fashion
as to exclude things that most users would call "user data".
>Precision here is particularly important.
Then please change your story to "There are situations in which z/OS
does not require EBCDIC", which is not only more precise but actually
true?
>I would humbly suggest that those who are misleading members of
>the open source community about z/OS are not doing anyone any
>favors.
We agree on that; where we disagree is on who is misleading them.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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