Note: This program does not convert the file to ASCII. It only interprets the first five records in the file as ASCII values and writes them to the SAS log. The transport file remains unchanged. Code ...

Because the OS/390 host stores character data in EBCDIC format, you cannot read the transport file as ASCII data. In order to view an EBCDIC file in ASCII or hexadecimal format, you must interpret it.

The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use: ...

Version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server was the first version which included a port to a (non-ASCII) mainframe machine which uses the EBCDIC character set as its native codeset. (It is the SIEMENS ...