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Make a Copy of the Original Table
Before you modify a translation table member, it is recommended that you
copy the original member, which resides in the supplied TRANSSRC file,
into another member. This leaves the original members inviolate in case
you still need to use them.
To copy a member, use the AS/400 command STRSEU (option 20 on the ETU
Utilities menu). Using SEU, copy the member you will modify into another
member.
Editing the Translation Table
Once you have copied the original source member, you can modify or edit
the member using SEU, the same command used to copy the original. To edit
the member, specify the name of the file containing the member to be
modified, the name of the member, the type of source to be edited, and,
optionally, text identifying the source member. When the source member
displays, you can edit the source member using any of the normal
SEU commands. For information on using SEU, see the IBM manual AS/400 SEU
User's Guide/Reference, SC09-1172.
After you have made the appropriate changes to the source member, save
the changes, exit SEU, and compile the source member.
In order to change the file you must be familiar with the record format
within the source file. The format of the file containing the translation
table members is described below.
Translation Table Record Format
Each record in the translation table is used to translate a character in
one set, ASCII or EBCDIC, to a character in the other set. For each
character record you modify, you provide the following information:
•
Scan character
•
Replace character
•
Action to be taken before or after the scan/replace
•
Pad characters for EBCDIC-to-ASCII translations
•
End-of-file character in ASCII-to-EBCDIC translations
•
End-of-record character in ASCII-to-EBCDIC translations
The record format for the translation table source file is shown in Table
8-2.