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.
If 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.