Data conversion for communication with non-System/390 systems

Whenever data is passed from one CICS® system to another, some or all of the data may have to be converted from ASCII to EBCDIC format, or vice versa.

Important

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

Related concepts
Where data conversion takes place
Function shipping and DPL
Distributed transaction processing
Transaction routing
Types of conversion
Character data
Binary data
The conversion process
User-defined conversion tables
Example macros
The user-replaceable conversion program
Data conversion for Clients
Related tasks
Avoiding data conversion
Resource definition to enable data conversion
Defining the conversion table
Assembling and link-editing the conversion programs
Related reference
Where data conversion takes place
Character data
Defining the conversion table
The user-replaceable conversion program
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