High Level Assembler uses the EBCDIC character set to represent characters contained in character (C-type) data constants (DCs) and literals. The TRANSLATE assembler option lets you specify a module containing a translation table which the assembler uses to convert these characters into another character set.

High Level Assembler provides an ASCII translation table; however, you can supply your own translation table. The translation table module must be named ASMALTxx, where xx is the suffix specified in the TRANSLATE assembler option. See TRANSLATE.