Appendix A: Customization Options

Customizing mainframe character set conversion options (SYGWMCXL)

SYGWMCXL is the character set conversion macro in the table SYGWXCPH. The following considerations apply in using the SYGWMCXL macro:

When Unicode support is disabled (USEIBMUNICODE=N) and the original translation method is used, SYGWMCXL can be used to override supplied SBCS translation tables or to define new SBCS translation tables.
When Unicode support is enabled (USEIBMUNICODE=Y), SYGWMCXL is used to create definition entries for the character sets to be used in the Client Option or Server Option conversions at a particular installation. These entries are created in addition to system-generated entries.

All EBCDIC-to-ASCII and ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation for Client Option or the Server Option occurs on the mainframe.