The Command Line Interface › Creating Custom Character Sets for File Conversion › Procedure

Procedure

To translate all lower case ASCII characters to upper case EBCDIC characters

1. a. To create a custom character set, do the following:

   From the command line, type

   cp $XCOM_HOME/convtab/atoe.tab conversionfilename
   

   Note:

   • conversionfilename can be any name you choose.
   • $XCOM_HOME is an environment variable.

   $XCOM_HOME/convtab/atoe.tab is copied to a new file and named conversionfilename.

   or

   b. To create a customer character set in order to use the CODETABL parameter, do the following:

   From the command line, type

   cp $XCOM_HOME/convtab/atoe.tab $XCOM_HOME/convtab/tstatoe.tab
   

   Note:

   • The prefix used above is tst but it can be any 1 to 3 character prefix you choose.
   • $XCOM_HOME is an environment variable.

   $XCOM_HOME/convtab/atoe.tab is copied to a new file and named tstatoe.tab.

2. Use vi or another editor to open the file that was created in Step 1 and copy the values from lines 66 to 91 to lines 98 to 123.

   Note: The decimal ASCII code for a is 98 and the decimal ASCII code for z is 123.

   The values in lines 98-123 are changed to represent uppercase EBCDIC characters.

3. Save the file and exit the editor.