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| Date | 2013-07-15 17:48 -0500 |
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| From | Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> |
| Subject | Re: UTF-EBCDIC encoding? |
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Kev Dwyer wrote: > Joel Goldstick wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>>> I can't help you. I'm astonished. Trying to imagine the work >>> environment >>>> where this technology would be necessary >>> >>> http://www.iseriespython.com/app/ispMain.py/Start?job=Home >>> >>> Skip >>> >> I remember the AS400 series.. although I never worked with one. What kind >> of business still use that stuff? Is it for large corporation accounting, >> MIS stuff? >> >> > > Some banks still run legacy systems on AS/400s, and I've seen them used for > airline booking systems and retail POS. Sadly there are many larger corporations that have oodles of legacy code on the Mainframe. We run z/OS and IBM DB2 here. In my off time I fiddle around with Python in an attempt to make life more enjoyable - and one of these forays has led me to attempt to unpack some packed data. Which is also an interesting (if not terribly useful) project. -W
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Re: UTF-EBCDIC encoding? Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2013-07-15 17:48 -0500
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