Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Language Reference


DBCS notation

Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) strings in literals, comments, and user-defined words are delimited by shift-out and shift-in characters. In this document, the shift-out delimiter is represented pictorially by the < character, and the shift-in character is represented pictorially by the > character. The single-byte EBCDIC codes for the shift-out and shift-in delimiters are X'0E' and X'0F', respectively.

The <> symbol denotes contiguous shift-out and shift-in characters. The >< symbol denotes contiguous shift-in and shift-out characters.

DBCS characters are shown in this form: D1D2D3. Latin alphabet characters in DBCS representation are shown in this form: .A.B.C. The dots that precede the letters represent the hexadecimal value X'42'.

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