SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

210 Details of Transferring Data Chapter 9
3 The encodings with EBCDIC in their names use the traditional mapping of
EBCDIC line-feed to ASCII line-feed character, which can cause data to appear as
one stream.
3 The encodings with USS in their names use the line-feed character as the
end-of-line character. When the data is transferred to an ASCII platform, the
EBCDIC new-line character maps to an ASCII line-feed character. This mapping
enables ASCII applications to interpret the end-of-line correctly, resulting in better
formatting.
If you need to exchange data between ASCII and EBCDIC, you can specify USS
encodings from the list of encodings in “ENCODING System Option” in the SAS
National Language Support (NLS): User’s Guide. There are several language elements
and commands that enable you to specify encodings when creating or exchanging data:
3 “FILE Statement” on page 363
3 “INFILE Statement” on page 387
3 “FILE Command” on page 561
3 “INCLUDE Command” on page 563
3 “ENCODING System Option” in the SAS National Language Support (NLS):
User’s Guide
3 “ENCODING= Data Set Option” in the SAS National Language Support (NLS):
User’s Guide