EM3270 Manual

Tandem EM3270 Manual—110332 C-1

Transliteration Option

This appendix describes the procedure for performing ASCII-to-ASCII conversions

when using a character set other than English. Languages other than English have a

problem with byte-synchronous controller EBCDIC-to-ASCII and ASCII-to-EBCDIC

translations. To overcome this problem, EM3270 is equipped with an option that permits

ASCII-to-ASCII translation on inbound and outbound data blocks in the IBM host

session.

You must provide two conversion tables for this purpose. The standard tables are shown

in Figure C-1.

These standard tables serve only as examples of the format for conversion tables. After

you identify the characters that are not transmitted correctly, and those that are not

received correctly, modify the conversion tables, changing the transliteration of those

characters only. This compensates for incorrect transliteration EBCDIC to ASCII or

ASCII to EBCDIC.

Installation

Replace the standard conversion tables with your modified tables in file transfer using

the following commands:

TAL/IN transsrc, OUT $s/transobj

BIND/IN cmdfile, OUT $s/

File cmdfile must contain the following commands:

ADD * FROM $system.system.em3270

REPLACE DATA inbound^table FROM transobj

REPLACE DATA outbound^table FROM transobj

BUILD $system.system.em327X

Specify the new object file $SYSTEM.SYSTEM.EM327X in a SET PROGRAM

command. Use the SET PROCESS TRANSLAT ON command before starting EM3270

with the START PROCESS command.

Figure C-1. Standard Conversion Tables

STRING inbound^table [0:255] = 'P':= [

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,

244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255]

STRING outbound^table [0:255] = 'P':= [

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,

244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255 ]