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z/OS running EBCDIC Code Page 1047

Core perl now works on this EBCDIC platform. Early perls also worked, but, even though support wasn't officially withdrawn, recent perls would not compile and run well. Perl 5.20 would work, but had many bugs which have now been fixed. Many CPAN modules that ship with Perl still fail tests, including Pod::Simple. However the version of Pod::Simple currently on CPAN should work; it was fixed too late to include in Perl 5.22. Work is under way to fix many of the still-broken CPAN modules, which likely will be installed on CPAN when completed, so that you may not have to wait until Perl 5.24 to get a working version.

Thanks to Karl and Yaroslav! This is amazing and involved a lot of work. The first FULL PASS was recieved today

Automated smoke report for branch blead 5.21.10 patch 15ffed4dd05ba47d
+636a237631bb0bad303514c2 v5.21.9-348-g15ffed4
RS12: 2817 (2817/)
    on        os/390 - 23.00
    using     c99 version
    smoketime 8 hours 39 minutes (average 4 hours 19 minutes)

Summary: PASS

O = OK  F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom
X = Failure(s) under TEST but not under harness
? = still running or test results not (yet) available
Build failures during:       - = unknown or N/A
c = Configure, m = make, M = make (after miniperl), t = make test-prep

v5.21.9-348-g15ffed4  Configuration (common) none
----------- ---------------------------------------------------------
O O O O
| | | +----- PERLIO = perlio -DDEBUGGING
| | +------- PERLIO = stdio  -DDEBUGGING
| +--------- PERLIO = perlio
+----------- PERLIO = stdio
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