Supported conversions

The method used to perform data conversion depends on the server platform. The range of data conversions supported also depends on the platform. The following information is taken from Communicating from CICS on System/390, and is provided as a guide; check the current copy of the book for full information. ASCII and EBCDIC CCSIDs are assigned to geographic or linguistic groups.

Data conversion is supported between ASCII and EBCDIC where both CCSIDs belong to the same group. The groups are:

Arabic
 
Baltic Rim
Latvia, Lithuania
Cyrillic
Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Russia, Yugoslavia
Estonian
Estonia
Greek
Greece
Hebrew
Israel
Japanese
Japan
Korean
Korea
Latin-1 and Latin-9
USA, Western Europe, and many other countries
Latin-2
Eastern Europe: Albania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Former Yugoslavia
Latin-5
Turkey
Simplified Chinese
People's Republic of China
Traditional Chinese
Taiwan
Vietnamese
Vietnam
The following tables list the CCSIDs supported for each group. For each CCSID, they show: