There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server is the first version which includes a port to a (non-ASCII) mainframe machine which uses the EBCDIC character set as its native codeset. (It is the SIEMENS family ...

If SAS/CONNECT is used frequently, you should use an alternate EBCDIC/ASCII translation table (TRANTAB=) on the remote host. The SAS Software Representative for the remote host should create the ...

In SAS/SHARE software, translation of numeric variables occurs when the server machine and the client machine represent floating-point numbers differently. For character variables, translation occurs ...