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:
- The value to be specified for the CLINTCP or SRVERCP keyword.
- The code page identifier or identifiers (CPGIDs).
- The current CICS® on System/390® products
that support the CCSID. Three levels of support are defined—“Base”, “T01”,
and “T02”.
- Base
-
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®
- CICS Transaction
Server for OS/390® (all
releases)
- CICS/ESA® Version
4 Release 1
- CICS/VSE®
- CICS/VSE Version
2 Release 3
- T01
-
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
- CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 Release 3
- CICS Transaction Server for OS/390 Release 1 or
Release 2 plus APAR PQ19018
- CICS/ESA Version
4 Release 1 plus APAR PQ18896
- CICS/VSE
- CICS/VSE Version
2 Release 3 plus APAR PQ19019
- T02
-
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS