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$EBCDICw. Informat
Converts EBCDIC character data to native format.
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Syntax |
| $EBCDICw. |
Syntax Description
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specifies the width of the input field.
Default: 1 if the length of the variable is undefined. Otherwise, the default is the length of the variable. Range: 1-32767
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If EBCDIC is the native format, no conversion occurs.
Note: Any time a text file originates from anywhere other than the local encoding environment, it might be necessary to specify the ENCODING= option on either ASCII or EBCDIC environments.
When you read an EBCDIC text file on an ASCII platform, it is recommended that you specify the ENCODING= option in the FILENAME or INFILE statement. However, if you use the DSD and the DLM= or DLMSTR= options in the FILENAME or INFILE statement, the ENCODING= option is a requirement because these options require certain characters in the session encoding (such as quotation marks, commas, and blanks).
The use of encoding-specific informats should be reserved for use with
true binary files. That is, they contain both character and non-character
fields. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
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On an IBM mainframe system, $EBCDICw. behaves like the $CHARw. informat.
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On all other systems, $EBCDICw. converts EBCDIC data to ASCII.
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input @1 name $ebcdic3.
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