Data conversion for Clients

Important

Information in this chapter about data conversion for the EPI and the Client terminal emulator function applies to:

Start of changeIf you are using a channel to perform data conversion, read "Data conversion using channels" in the CICS Application Programming Guide instead of this topic. Channels are available in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 Release 1 onwards.End of change

For detailed information about data conversion between CICS workstation products and CICS on System/390® systems, see Data conversion for communication with non-System/390 systems. This chapter describes considerations specific to conversion between CICS Clients and CICS on System/390.

The CICS on System/390 server must translate between its EBCDIC encoding of character data and the ASCII encoding used by the attached Clients.

For the EPI:

For the ECI:

Related concepts
Data conversion for communication with non-System/390 systems
Binary data conversion
Introduction to CICS Clients
Related tasks
Defining code pages to CICS on System/390
Installing server support for Clients
Application programming for Clients
Problem determination for Clients
Recovery after a restart of CICS
Migration considerations
Related reference
The client code page
The server code page and character set
Further information about Clients
Restrictions on Client support
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