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Workspace z/OS
Categories Shell & Utilities
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 21, 2024

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All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware.

This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of  the z/OS utilities that expect/require those files to be in EBDCIC (IBM-1047).

Specific use case:

1. using the zopen openssh ssh-keygen the generated keys are tagged ISO8859-1

2. using the zopen git to access GitHub the ssh connection fails as the ssh key is reported in an invalid format

3. recreate the ssh keys using the /bin/ssh-keygen the resulting keys are untagged and git works

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 21, 2024 
    "All"?  some utilities are by design wisely exempt from autoconversion.
    These include od, cksum, iconv, and others.

    would it rely on autoconversion?  Would it be limited to ISO8859-1
    and IBM-1047?

    What about UTF-8, which abounds on desktops and web pages?

    Would it be affected by locale settings?  On my desktop I see, e.g.:
    504 $ echo aπz | sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1  2 \2  3 \3  /'
    1 a  2 π  3 z  
    505 $ 
    505 $ echo aπz | LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1  sed -E 's/(.)(.)(.)/1 \1  2 \2  3 \3  /'
    1 a  2 ?  3 ?  z
    506 $

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