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OS ISSUES

There may be a few system dependent issues of concern to EBCDIC Perl programmers.

OS/400

The PASE environment.

IFS access
XXX.

OS/390, z/OS

Perl runs under Unix Systems Services or USS.

chcp
chcp is supported as a shell utility for displaying and changing one's code page. See also chcp.
dataset access

For sequential data set access try:

 
    my @ds_records = `cat //DSNAME`;  

or:

 
    my @ds_records = `cat //'HLQ.DSNAME'`;  

See also the OS390::Stdio module on CPAN.

OS/390, z/OS iconv
iconv is supported as both a shell utility and a C RTL routine. See also the iconv(1) and iconv(3) manual pages.
locales
On OS/390 or z/OS see locale for information on locales. The L10N files are in /usr/nls/locale. $Config{d_setlocale} is 'define' on OS/390 or z/OS.

VM/ESA?

XXX.

POSIX-BC?

XXX.

 

  

 

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