z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

Trying the examples provided
Before you try to run any of the provided examples, you need to know that the z/OS
shell uses the EBCDIC Latin1/Open System Interconnection Code Page 01047.
Characters entered on a workstation keyboard and passed to the shell by z/OS do
not have the same hexadecimal encoding as the code page the shell uses. You
may need to customize your keyboard so that those characters have the encoding
the shell uses. See z/OS UNIX System Services User’s Guidefor more information
about code page conversion, about using a keyboard with customized characters,
and for a copy of code page 01047.
Environment variables
The Environment Variables topic lists the environment variables that affect the
command, if any, and describes the purposes that those variables serve. For
example, the ls command description lists two environment variables— COLUMNS
and TZ—and informs you that COLUMNS is the terminal width and that TZ contains
information about the local time zone.
Localization
All shell commands are affected by the following special localization variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_MESSAGES
v NLSPATH
The Localization topic describes how the locale-related environment variables affect
the behavior of the command. These environment variables allow you to access
locale information, including alternate character sets; alternate numeric, monetary,
and date and time formats; and foreign language translations of common
messages. Locales make it easier for users around the world to use the shell and
utilities.
z/OS UNIX System Services supports the IBM-supplied locales listed in Table 1.
User-generated locales using code page 1047 are also supported.
Table 1. Locales Supplied by z/OS UNIX System Services
Country or Region Language Locale Name
Bulgaria Bulgarian Bg_BG.IBM-1025
Czech Republic Czech Cs_CZ.IBM-870
Denmark Danish Da_DK.IBM-277
Denmark Danish Da_DK.IBM-1047
Switzerland German De_CH.IBM-500
Switzerland German De_CH.IBM-1047
Germany German De_DE.IBM-273
Germany German De_DE.IBM-1047
Greece Ellinika El_GR.IBM-875
United Kingdom English En_GB.IBM-285
United Kingdom English En_GB.IBM-1047
Japan English En_JP.IBM-1027
United States English En_US.IBM-037
United States English En_US.IBM-1047
Spain Spanish Es_ES.IBM-284
Spain Spanish Es_ES.IBM-1047
Finland Finnish Fi_FI.IBM-278
Finland Finnish Fi_FI.IBM-1047
Belgium French Fr_BE.IBM-500
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