Supported conversions

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 IBM® zSeries, and is provided as a guide; check the current copy of the PDF 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.

Table 1. Data conversion support
Geographic group Country CCSIDs supported
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
The tables in the links above list the CCSIDs supported for each group. For each CCSID, they show:
  • The value to be specified for the CLINTCP or SRVERCP keyword.
  • The code page identifier or identifiers (CPGIDs).
  • The current CICS on IBM z Systems® products that support the CCSID. Three levels of support are defined: Base, T01, and T02.
    Base
    • CICS Transaction Server for IBM z/OS
    • CICS TS for VSE
    T01
    • CICS Transaction Server for IBM z/OS
    • CICS TS for VSE
    T02
    • CICS Transaction Server for IBM z/OS