Variant characters

The POSIX Portable Character Set (PPCS) identifies the core set of 128 characters that are needed to write code and to run applications. Of these, some characters are variant among the EBCDIC coded character sets.

Table 1 lists these 15 characters that are valid in CICS® attribute values, as they appear when the code page is IBM-037. It also displays their appearance when the IBM-037 hexadecimal values are entered on systems where different Extended Coded Character Sets are installed. These hex values are the ones expected by CICS TS.

Table 1. Mappings of 15 PPCS variant characters
Character Name US/Can IBM-037 Hex Value US/Can IBM-037 view Open Systems IBM-1047 view Ireland/UK IBM-285 view APL IBM-293 view International IBM-500 view France IBM-297 view Germany IBM-273 view
left bracket BA [ Ý ^ ∇ ¬ ¬ ¬
right bracket BB ] ¨ ] Δ | | |
left brace C0 { { { { { é ä
right brace D0 } } } } } è ü
backslash E0 \ \ \ \ \ ç Ö
circumflex B0 ^ ¬ ¢ α ¢ ¢ ¢
tilde A1 ~ ~ ¯ ~ ~ ¨ ß
cent sign 4A ¢ ¢ $ ¢ ! ! Ä
exclamation mark 5A ! ! ! ! ] § Ü
not sign 5F ¬ ^ ¬ ¬ ^ ^ ^
pound (number) sign 7B # # # # # £ #
vertical bar 4F | | | | ! ! !
accent grave 79 ˋ ˋ ˋ ˋ ˋ μ ˋ
dollar sign 5B $ $ £ $ $ $ $
commercial "at" 7C @ @ @ @ @ á §

Table 2 lists the hexadecimal values assigned across some of the EBCDIC coded character sets for the 15 variant characters that are valid in CICS attribute values.

Table 2. Mappings of Hex encoding of 15 PPCS variant characters
Character Name Glyph GCGID US/Can IBM-037 view Open Systems IBM-1047 view Ireland/UK IBM-285 view APL IBM-293 view International IBM-500 view France IBM-297 view Germany IBM-273 view
left bracket [ SM060000 BA AD B1 AD 4A 90 63
right bracket ] SM080000 BB BD BB BD 5A B5 FC
left brace { SM110000 C0 C0 C0 C0 C0 51 43
right brace } SM140000 D0 D0 D0 D0 D0 54 DC
backslash \ SM070000 E0 E0 E0 E0 E0 48 EC
circumflex ^ SD150000 B0 5F BA 5F 5F 5F 5F
tilde ~ SD190000 A1 A1 BC A1 A1 BD 59
cent sign ¢ SC040000 4A 4A B0 4A B0 B0 B0
exclamation mark ! SP020000 5A 5A 5A 5A 4F 4F 4F
not sign ¬ SM660000 5F B0 5F 5F BA BA BA
pound (number) sign # SM010000 7B 7B 7B 7B 7B B1 7B
vertical bar | SM130000 4F 4F 4F 4F BB BB BB
accent grave ˋ SD130000 79 79 7D 79 79 A0 79
dollar sign $ SC030000 5B 5B 4A 5B 5B 5B 5B
commercial "at" @ SM050000 7C 7C 7C 7C 7C 44 B5