Because the CMS host stores character data in EBCDIC format, you cannot read the transport file as ASCII data. In order to view an EBCDIC file in ASCII or hexadecimal format, you must interpret it.

Note: This program does not convert the file to ASCII. It only interprets the first five records in the file as ASCII values and writes them to the SAS log. The transport file remains unchanged. Code ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ...