Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench MBCS Support

This chapter contains the following topics:

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Purpose

•	Procedures

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Utility

Purpose

Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench supports Multiple-Byte Character Set (MBCS) for code conversion, which includes (but not limited to) Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Variable names with MBCS support for code conversion and MBCS support for data conversion are not supported.

Procedures

Following are the typical procedures to convert code which includes MBCS using Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench:

•	Fetch the source code assets (including COBOL, COPYBOOK, JCL, MAP) from mainframe using FTP tool with binary mode.

•	Use code page conversion utility (e.g. ICU uconv) to convert the multiple-byte characters in EBCDIC encoding (e.g. IBM-1390) in the source assets to multiple-byte characters in encoding on open system (e.g. Shift-JIS).

•	Use other tools provided by Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench to convert the source code assets, e.g. COBOL Converter, JCL Converter.

Utility

ICU uconv utility is recommended to convert the multiple-byte characters in EBCDIC encoding in the source assets to multiple-byte characters in encoding on open system.

The typical usage of uconv utility is as following:

uconv -f [source_encoding] -t [dest_encoding] -o [output_file_name] source_file_name

For example, the following command converts the input.bms file which is encoded in IBM-1390 to output.bms file which is encoded in Shift-JIS:

uconv -f ibm-1390 -t shift-jis -o output.bms input.bms