Converting mainframe Hex character

[DDP021]

Hi,

We have a mainframe file loading to CMOD.  One of the mainframe characters is a | character (x'4F') .  When the file is loaded into CMOD, the character is converted to an ! character.   Does anyone know why this would be happening??

[Mehmet S Yersel]

Is it possible the code page document created in is not matching the one used to load it in CMOD?
Check this link out, there is a list of differences between the 2 code pages: 
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/conversion-character-differences-between-ccsid-037-and-ccsid-500

[Justin Derrick]

Can you post your indexing parameters so we can see what's going on?

Thanks.

-JD.

[DDP021]

Justin,

Apologize for the late response.   The issue we found was, On Windows and mainframe, X’4F’ displays as a pipe symbol.  On Linux, x’6A’ displays a pipe symbol.   The submitter of the data decided on using x’5E’ which is a ; (semicolon) on the output.  We did give them another option, x'BB' which did display in CMOD as and "|".   But since they were the ones updating the datafile, we left the decision up to them!!   As always, thank you, and everyone, for their replies!!   Take care.   Dave