CICS® Configuration Manager API XML elements can contain the following set of "safe" characters:
All other characters are considered "unsafe", and must be specified using the following escaped format:
%h
where h is a hexadecimal number representing the EBCDIC character code.
For example, to include a less than sign in the content of an element, specify:
%4C
Do not use the escaped format to specify safe characters.
XML predefined entity references (such as & and <) and XML character references (such as & and <) are not supported.