The ASCII code was designed with an eye toward digital manipulation of the characters. For example, number characters (0, 1, 3, etc.) are in order starting with 30 hexadecimal (hex). That is, the ...

Viewing a CMS EBCDIC Transport File in ASCII or Hexadecimal Format Because the CMS host stores character data in EBCDIC format, you cannot read the transport file as ASCII data. In order to view an ...