ASCIISOSI

The ASCIISOSI option enables correct representation of EBCDIC DBCS characters.

This option adds the required SOSI characters to the relevant character strings in order for them to be displayed or written out correctly; otherwise you may receive garbage characters as a result of the internal character translations that occur between ASCII and EBCDIC when process your data.

Syntax:

ASCIISOSI = { ON } { OFF }

Parameters:

ON: SOSI characters are appropriately added to EBCDIC DBCS characters strings in order for them to be displayed correctly.
OFF: No SOSI characters are added to EBCDIC DBCS characters strings.

Properties:

Default:

OFF

Comments:

Only set this option if you are dealing with DBCS data items, and the shift-in and shift-out characters are not explicitly set preceding/following the relevant string in your source code.

This parameter can only be set globally; that is, under the tag [XFH-DEFAULT]. You cannot set the parameter for an individual file.