Hi! I want to understand how TN3270 emulation works regarding convertion of characters (between EBCDIC and ASCII, and viceversa). This is how I think it works (more or less), but I am not sure at all. So please let me know about any mistakes. Let suppose that you use a TN3270 emulator program to access the ISPF browser to display a dataset. Let also assume, to simplify, that it contains just a single character, an "A".In DASD, what is indeed stored is X'C1' or, to be more accurate, BINARY'1100 0001'. When you BROWSE the dataset, then the Mainframe sends to the TN3270 PC client exactly X'C1' (BIN'1100 0001'). No convertion is done at the Mainframe side. Then, when the TN3270 client receives X'C1', because it knows that this is a TN3270 session and that its configured CODEPAGE is say 500, it realizes that X'C1' corresponds to an "A" displayable character. And, before sending the instruction to display it on the PC screen, it converts X'C1' to X'41'. Is this more or less how this works? Thanks in advnace for your help,
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