RE: Codepages: Does anybody have any idea why . . .

["Wintermute, Sharon" <Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not every company NEEDS globalization and international support. Neither do they all need encryption.  

These should be set by the final setup not by default. 

Are you going to make M$Soft switch from ASCII to Unicode?  The basic OS on most desktops is not Unicode. 


Sharon Wintermute


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Codepages: Does anybody have any idea why . . .

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 19:29, Wintermute, Sharon
<Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So you want IBM to help the dummies who can't figure out how to configure the system? That sounds like a training/hiring issue for the company that uses the system, not necessarily something IBM needs to fix.

Defaults should be sane and current. Unfortunately, the defaults on a
newly shipped IBM i are horrible - for example, Telnet is enabled and
only unencrypted. A sane and current default configuration would
automatically create a self-signed certificate and enable only
Telnet/SSL.

> Not everyone need a Unicode default configuration. ÂEBCDIC does not mean its LEGACY.

EBCDIC has no place in todays time of globalization and international
use of software.