Fujitsu BS2OSD manual Support for conversion from 7 bit to 8 bit character set

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*4 Limiting the I/O inclusion of single VM2000 guest systems (IOLVM)

*4 Less important guest systems that have intensive I/O activity,

*4 can severely impede other, much more important guest systems

*4 that use the same I/O resources.

*4 The IORM function can detect such conflict situations and

*4 intervene predictively. To do this, IORM continuously collects

*4 the utilization values for all known I/O devices, checks the

*4 settings for IOLVM and intervenes in the control if necessary.

*4 IOLVM only considers disk devices. As with the IOPT function,

*4 FDDRL, ARCHIVE, VOLIN and PAGING I/Os are not braked.

*4 Adapting the compression of LTO devices (TCOM)

*4 To ensure optimum data backup to LTO tapes, a minimum data rate

*4 must be maintained to keep the tapes continuously streaming.

*4 This minimum data rate is sometimes only achieved if the

*4 compression is disabled on the device. However, this reduces the

*4 tape capacity accordingly. By default, the compression is always

*4 enabled in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0, even if IORM is not used.

*4 The compression can be fully disabled with the TCOM function.

*4 TCOM can also dynamically enable/disable the compression

*4 according to the data rate. The compression is disabled if the

*4 data rate is sufficient for tape streaming without compression

*4 but not with it.

2.16.2 Support for conversion from 7 bit to 8 bit character set

*4 By default, BS2000/OSD uses the 7 bit EBCDIC character set

*4 EDF03IRV with 95 printable characters and 65 control characters

*4 in the system. The designation 7 bit has established itself

*4 since the reproducible characters available correspond to the

*4 ASCII 7 bit character set although 8 bits are used for coding.

*4 Via the XHCS (Extended Host Code Support) subsystem, BS2000/OSD *4 supports both the 7 bit and 8 bit character sets that encompass *4 128 or 256 characters respectively.

*4 This allows BS2000/OSD to depict all languages that are defined

*4 in the international code tables as per ISO 8859. The concept of

*4 "coded character sets" (CCS) that defines the character coding

*4 in a file is used to depict the different character sets and

*4 codes. The programs get the information about the character sets

*4 from XHCS and do not have to store it themselves. Regardless of

*4 the input source, XHCS identifies the character sets via their

*4 character set names, the so-called CCS name, and makes them

*4 available in the form of tables.

*4 The class 2 option HOSTCODE=<CCS name> can be used to define a

*4 different, specific 8 bit EBCDI code instead of EDF03IRV for the *4 complete BS2000/OSD system. Code definition via the CCS name is *4 possible for separate IDs and pubsets.

*4 The default value for inputs on the terminal to TIAM, UTM and

*4 DCAM applications can be modified globally via the VTSU-B

*4 parameter file SYSPAR.VTSU-B.<vers>. Once the appropriate

*4 parameters are set, the character set of the home pubset for

*4 this ID apply. This is done for a single process with the command

*4 MODIFY-TERMINAL-OPTIONS CODED-CHARACTER-SET=*8BIT-DEFAULT.

*4 If data is converted from a 7 bit character set to an 8 bit one,

*4 the converted data must be distinguishable from the unconverted

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Fujitsu BS2OSD manual Support for conversion from 7 bit to 8 bit character set