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z/OS File Conversion

The z/OS agent translates text files to a unified format at check-in and translates text files to the z/OS format on check-out. Files are read in and written out using stream input/output.

Note: For Hierarchical File System (HFS) files, CA Harvest SCM translates from Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) to ASCII and performs stream input/output as defined in the z/OS C/C++ Programming Guide.

The z/OS agent explicitly performs ASCII to EBCDIC translation. The ASCII code page is set to ASCII code page 437. The EBCDIC code page is set to EBCDIC 037.

To avoid compilation errors on C++ and JAVA text files, the z/OS agent translates the following characters to EBCDIC 1047 code page format: “ [“,”]”, and “ ^”. This means that text files containing these characters are always checked out using the 1047 code page format as shown in the following hexadecimal character table. Files containing EBCDIC hexadecimal characters BA, BB, or B0 are always checked out with EBCDIC hexadecimal characters BD, AD, 5F, respectively.