Transmitting mixed data
Mixed data is data that contains both character and graphic data.
About this task
If you transmit mixed data between your local system and a remote system, put the data in varying-length character strings instead of fixed-length character strings.
Converting mixed data: When ASCII MIXED data
or Unicode MIXED data is converted to EBCDIC MIXED, the converted
string is longer than the source string. An error occurs if that conversion
is performed on a fixed-length input host variable. The remedy is
to use a varying-length string variable with a maximum length that
is sufficient to contain the expansion.