Version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server is the first version which includes a port to a (non-ASCII) mainframe machine which uses the EBCDIC character set as its native codeset. (It is the SIEMENS family ...

In SAS/SHARE software, translation of numeric variables occurs when the server machine and the client machine represent floating-point numbers differently. For character variables, translation occurs ...

The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use: ...

The following character informats and formats produce different results in different operating environments, depending on which character-encoding system the operating system uses. Because UNIX uses ...

Only 20,000 or so of the big beasts still exist in the wild. They’re IBM mainframes, and despite the scorn of a legacy label, they continue to run critical processes companies simply don’t trust to ...

Bitwise, a data management services company, announced the launch of its Hadoop Adaptor for Mainframe Data, intended for converting any mainframe data in EBCDIC format to Hadoop-friendly formats such ...