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 zSeries, 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, as shown in this table.
Geographic group | Country | CCSIDs supported |
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Arabic | Arabic | Arabic client and server CCSIDs |
Baltic Rim | Latvia, Lithuania | Baltic Rim client and server CCSIDs |
Cyrillic | Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Russia, former Yugoslavia | Cyrillic client and server CCSIDs |
Estonian | Estonia | Estonian client and server CCSIDs |
Greek | Greece | Greek client and server CCSIDs |
Hebrew | Israel | Hebrew client and server CCSIDs |
Japanese | Japan | Japanese ASCII and EBCDIC |
Korean | Korea | Korean ASCII and EBCDIC |
Latin-1 and Latin-9 | USA, Western Europe, and many other countries. | Latin-1 and Latin-9 client and server CCSIDs |
Latin-2 | Eastern Europe: Albania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, former Yugoslavia | Latin-2 ASCII and server CCSIDs |
Latin-5 | Turkey | Latin-5 client and server CCSIDs |
Simplified Chinese | People's Republic of China | Simplified Chinese ASCII and EBCDIC |
Traditional Chinese | Taiwan | Traditional Chinese ASCII and EBCDIC |
Vietnamese | Vietnam | Vietnamese client and server CCSIDs |