Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Programming Guide


DBCS notation

The symbols shown below are used in the DBCS data conversion examples to describe DBCS items.

Symbols Meaning
< and > Shift-out (SO) and shift-in (SI), respectively
D0, D1, D2, . . ., Dn Any DBCS character except for double-byte EBCDIC characters that correspond to single-byte EBCDIC characters
.A, .B, .C, . . . Any double-byte EBCDIC character that corresponds to a single-byte EBCDIC character. The period (.) represents the value X'42'.
A single letter, such as A, B, or s Any single-byte EBCDIC character

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