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Supporting more languages in VM and VSE
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Dieltiens Geert
2006-01-31 08:08:37 UTC
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Hi all,

We have always used English as our "system-language" on VM and VSE. But globalisation forces us to add languages like Arabic, Russian, and Chinese to our applications. The data(mostly peoples names and addresses etc.) will be managed using 3270-CICS-applications (using IBM PCOMM terminal emulation), and will also be sent using FTP to/from other platforms as well.

Is it possible to manage all those languages in the same VM/VSE system? Where do I start? Any books? Anyone willing to share her/his experiences in this area?

Thanks.
Geert.
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Dieltiens Geert
2006-01-31 14:01:44 UTC
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Alan,

Thank you, I'll have a look.

Bye,
Geert.
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On Tuesday, 01/31/2006 at 09:08 CET, Dieltiens Geert
Post by Dieltiens Geert
We have always used English as our "system-language" on VM and VSE.
But
Post by Dieltiens Geert
globalisation forces us to add languages like Arabic, Russian, and
Chinese to
Post by Dieltiens Geert
our applications. The data(mostly peoples names and addresses etc.)
will be
Post by Dieltiens Geert
managed using 3270-CICS-applications (using IBM PCOMM terminal
emulation), and
Post by Dieltiens Geert
will also be sent using FTP to/from other platforms as well.
Is it possible to manage all those languages in the same VM/VSE
system?
Where
Post by Dieltiens Geert
do I start? Any books? Anyone willing to share her/his experiences in
this area?

CMS and CP do have the concept of setting the command and message
language
on a per-virtual machine basis, and CMS has APIs that deal with code
page
translation, but it's not clear that's of any use to you since you're
using CICS apps.

z/VM networking applications such as FTP, LPR, and NFS allow the end
user
to control the EBCDIC-ASCII translation tables. FTP includes support
for
Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Support varies depending on whether you
are talking about the client or the server.

Here are some sources of information for z/VM:
1) The "Using Translation Tables" chapter of the VM TCP/IP Planning and
Admin book
2) http://www.vm.ibm.com/euro/. While this site focuses on the Euro, it

is really about translation tables.
3) http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/tcpxlate.html provides some
additional translations that have been requested in the past few years.
(I
suppose I ought to look at getting them in the product!)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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