Stream: WAVEZ 101
Time: 10:00 - 10:45
Conquering codepages - the rosetta stone of mainframe computing
A key area to understanding mainframe computing is how text data is stored on disk, how it is read and processed by applications, and importantly what to do when things get tricky.
This talk will cover the background behind codepages and how to master everything from double byte character sets, bidi typing, internationalization, and what the pitfalls are when you get things wrong and your US apps run in Sweden (who have 29 letters in their alphabet) or Turkey (who have four letter Is) and elsewhere.
With more open source and Linux software coming to the mainframe this is an area that even the most seasoned sysprogs and developers trip themselves up, and likewise it's something that often trips up newcomers who aren't famliar with text encoding.
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Joe is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the IBM z Systems software group. He is a member of the Zowe open mainframe project working with customers and business partners to create an open source tooling platform for z/OS tools.
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