When you use rlogin, telnet, or Communications Server to access the shell, the data you enter is translated from ASCII (ISO8859-1) to EBCDIC (IBM-1047) before the shell processes it. To change code pages for the current session, use the chcp command. To automatically change code pages after you login, see Changing the locale in the shell for the z/OS® shell, or Changing the locale in the shell for the tcsh shell.

For a complete list of the single-byte and double-byte ASCII and EBCDIC code pages that you can specify, see z/OS XL C/C++ Programming Guide.