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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 16, 2020

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FTP - Submit a JOB from a UTF-8 encoded file

With the openness to the heterogeneous world, Clients most often work with UTF-8 encoding, while the "mvs" part of z/OS works in EBCDIC.

We would like to be able to submit JOBs via FTP which on the Client are encoded in UTF-8, and that on the z/OS server they are processed in EBCDIC, and more particularly in IBM-1147 (France).

The JOB contains inline sysins with French accented characters, in this case COBOL program sources.

This does not seem possible directly: the JES interface does not accept a multibyte encoding which is necessary to make a UTF-8 to EBCDIC (1147) conversion.

There are alternative solutions, such as locally transcoding the JOB to single-byte encoding, for example Windows-1252. But it would be easier to be able to submit a JOB encoded locally in UTF-8.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 27, 2023
    There would be very significant challenges to implementing this based on how the server processes the stream representing the job submission. This will be declined.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 29, 2021

    Thank you for your reply.

    The use of FTP to submit a job from a remote client was implemented in response to our system team refusing to give us access to z/OSMF, considering that z/OSMF was not an interface but was a system administration tool.

    Note that in France, in addition to the posture of our system team, we have to deal with security regulations imposed by the government: direct access to production systems qualified as strategic (such as bank IT systems), and the administrative functions of this systems, must not be exposed on a "public" interface and must be accessible only by very strongly controlled interfaces, to activate clearly identified and authorized mechanisms. z/OSMF being by nature an administration system, this disqualifies it from making it an "open" access interface to development teams.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 26, 2021

    While this RFE is being accepted as a possible future candidate, as an alternative approach you might wish to look at the z/OS Jobs REST interface. Please see the section "z/OS jobs REST interface" in "Chapter 1. Using the z/OSMF REST services" of the IBM z/OS Management Facility Programming Guide (SC27-8420-40). A PDF of the z/OS V2R4 version can be found at: https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosV2R4SC278420/$file/izua700_v2r4.pdf

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