March 2007
Beginner
526 pages
13h 53m
English
book
Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VSE Basics
by Wolfgang Bosch, Hans Joachim Ebert, Helmut Hellner, G. M. (Jerry) Johnston, Wilhelm Mild, Ingolf Salm, Joerg Schmidbauer, Martin Walbruehl, Mike Ebbers
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Chapter 8. Designing and developing applications for z/VSE 207
For example,
a is less than A in EBCDIC, but a is greater than A in ASCII.
Numeric characters are less than any alphabetic letter in ASCII but are greater
than any letter in EBCDIC. A–Z and a–z are two contiguous sequences in ASCII.
In EBCDIC there are gaps between some letters.
Traditional mainframe programming does not use special characters to terminate
fields. In particular, nulls and new line characters (or CL/LF character pairs) are
not used. There is no concept of a
binary versus a text file. Bytes can be
interpreted as EBCDIC or ASCII or something else if programmed properly. If
such files are sent to a mainframe printer, it will attempt to interpret them as
EBCDIC chara ...
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