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


Allowable control characters

The control characters shown in the table below are the only characters other than printable characters that line-sequential files can contain. The hexadecimal values are in EBCDIC.

Hexadecimal value Control character
X'05' Horizontal tab
X'0B' Vertical tab
X'0C' Form feed
X'0D' Carriage return
X'0E' DBCS shift-out
X'0F' DBCS shift-in
X'15' Newline
X'16' Backspace
X'2F' Alarm

The newline character is treated as a record delimiter. The other control characters are treated as data and are part of the record.


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