EM3270 Manual
Tandem EM3270 Manual—110332 C-1
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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 ]