SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

CHAPTER
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Informats under z/OS
Informats in the z/OS Environment 277
Considerations for Using Informats under z/OS 277
EBCDIC and Character Data 277
Floating-Point Number Format and Portability 278
Reading Binary Data 278
Date and Time Informats 279
Ew.d Informat 280
HEXw. Informat 280
IBw.d Informat 282
PDw.d Informat 282
RBw.d Informat 283
ZDw.d Informat 284
ZDBw.d Informat 285
Informats in the z/OS Environment
In general, informats are completely portable. Only the informats that have aspects
specific to z/OS are documented in this chapter.
All informats are described in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary; that information
is not repeated here. Instead, you are given details on how the informat behaves under
z/OS, and then you are referred to SAS Language Reference: Dictionary for further
details.
Considerations for Using Informats under z/OS
EBCDIC and Character Data
The following character informats produce different results on different computing
platforms, depending on which character-encoding system the platform uses. Because z/
OS uses the EBCDIC character-encoding system, all of the following informats convert
data to EBCDIC.
These informats are not discussed in detail in this chapter because the EBCDIC
character-encoding system is their only host-specific aspect.
$ASCIIw.
converts ASCII character data to EBCDIC character data.
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