Converting data from EBCDIC to ASCII or ASCII to EBCDIC

Print Interface can convert data from EBCDIC to ASCII or from ASCII to EBCDIC before writing text data to the JES spool. Print Interface automatically detects these types of formatted data and does not convert the data: JPEG, MO:DCA-P (also called AFP), PCL, PDF, PostScript, SAP, TIFF, and XML.

Print Interface uses the iconv utility provided with z/OS to convert text data between EBCDIC and ASCII code pages. You can specify the document and printer code pages that Print Interface uses as the source and target code pages. For more information about the iconv utility, see z/OS XL C/C++ Programming Guide.

If a filter is specified in the printer definition, Print Interface converts data from one code page to another before calling the filter.