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PIPE XLATE
PIPE XLATE
Syntax
XLATE:
XLATE
1.*
position.length
UPPER
A2E
COMMON
E2A
LOWER
Command Description
The XLATE stage accepts a message from its input stream, translates specified
characters to other characters, and writes the message to its output stream.
Streams
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Use XLATE to translate:
v Uppercase letters to lowercase letters
v Lowercase letters to uppercase letters
v ASCII characters to EBCDIC characters
v EBCDIC characters to ASCII characters
Stream Type Number Supported
Input 1
Output 1
Termination Conditions
The XLATE stage terminates when either its input stream or output stream
disconnects.
Operand Descriptions
position.length
Specifies the character position where translation begins and the length from
that point that translation occurs. The default is 1.*, which means start at the
first position and continue to the end.
UPPER
Specifies that the standard 26 Latin letters are translated to uppercase.
A2E
Specifies that ASCII characters are translated to EBCDIC. ASCII code set ISO
8859-1 and EBCDIC code set IBM-1047 are used.
COMMON
Specifies that EBCDIC character codes that are not common to all code sets are
translated to X'5C' (asterisk), except X'00' (null) and X'FF' (EO), which are
translated to X'40' (blank).