Mainframe To Open System (Mto) Character Code Conversion; Overview Of Character Code Conversion; Code Conversion Data Types And Field Types - HP StorageWorks P9000 User Manual

5 Mainframe to Open System (MTO)
Character Code Conversion
This chapter describes the mto character code conversion process.
• Overview of Character Code
• Alphanumeric Field Conversion
• Double-byte Character Field Conversion
• Double-byte Character Field Conversion
• Customizing the Code Conversion

Overview of Character Code Conversion

The single-byte code conversion process changes code from EBCDIC to ASCII. The double-byte code
conversion process is from IBM Traditional Chinese to Big5.
Code Converter provides the following types of character code conversion for each field data type,
as shown in the following table.
Table 11 Code Conversion Data Types and Field Types
Input field data type
EBCDIC
IBM Traditional Chinese
EBCDIC and IBM Traditional
Chinese
All code conversion uses the above code conversion tables.
Conversion, page 55
(CHAR:OPK4), page 56
(KANJI:OPK1), page 56
(KANJI:OPK2), page 57
Table, page 57
Character code conversion
EBCDIC to ASCII
IBM Traditional Chinese to Big5
EBCDIC and IBM Traditional
Chinese mixture data to ASCII
and Big5
P9000 Data Exchange Code Converter User Guide
Field type and conversion
mode
CHAR:OPK4
KANJI:OPK1
KANJI:OPK2
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