This Natural profile parameter is relevant for Asian countries which use double-byte character sets (DBCS).
SOSI
replaces the profile parameters
SI
and
SO
which will cease
to be available with the next version of Natural.
If the profile parameter CP
is set to a multi-byte
code page (MBCS), the logical shift-in and shift-out characters will be
supplied with the code page and therefore SOSI
will be
ignored.
Possible settings | subparameters | See Positional Subparameters below. |
---|---|---|
Default setting | none | |
Dynamic specification | yes | |
Specification within session | no |
The following topics are covered below:
The parameter syntax of SOSI
is as follows:
SOSI=(logical-shift-out,[physical-shift-out],logical-shift-in,[physical-shift-in],[SO/SI-display-length]) |
A shift-out code is used to indicate the point at which the code of character representation is shifted out of normal (single-byte) mode into double-byte mode.
A shift-in code is used to indicate the point at which the code of character representation is shifted from double-byte mode back into normal (single-byte) mode.
The positional subparameters are described below:
Logical shift-out/shift-in characters are converted into the corresponding physical shift-out/shift-in characters before data is transferred to the screen.
Physical shift-out/shift-in characters are converted into the corresponding logical shift-out/shift-in characters before data entered on the screen is transferred to the Natural application.
The subparameter logical-shift-out corresponds to the profile parameter
SO
and the subparameter logical-shift-in corresponds to
the profile parameter SI
.
The obsolete profile parameters SO
and SI
are
still valid, but must be used mutually exclusive with the profile parameter
SOSI
. It is strongly recommended that you use the
SOSI
profile parameter instead of the profile parameters
SO
and SI
.
Specifying
SO=xx,SI=yy
is equivalent to specifying
SOSI=(xx,xx,yy,yy,1)
.
If code page support is disabled (that is, the profile parameter
CP
is set to
CP=OFF
), the entries for the logical shift-out/shift-in characters
are updated in the translation tables provided by the following macros and
profile parameters:
Table | Macro | Profile Parameter |
---|---|---|
Standard (primary) output translation table | NTTAB |
TAB |
Alternative (secondary) output translation table | NTTAB1 |
TAB1 |
Secondary input translation table used when the
session parameter PM is set to
C .
|
NTTAB2 |
TAB2 |
SYS* output translation table | NTTABL |
TABL |
If the characters into which the logical shift-out/shift-in characters
are to be translated still have their default value
("?" = X’6F’
) in the respective
translation table at Natural startup (that is, they have not been modified by
one of the macros or profile parameters mentioned above), they will be updated
so that logical shift-out/shift-in characters will not be translated for input
and output.
For detailed information on the translation tables, see Translation Tables in the Operations documentation.
For IBM hardware, you should use SOSI=(0E,0E,0F,0F,1)
,
which is equivalent to SOSI=(0E,,0F,,1)
.
For Fujitsu hardware, you should use SOSI=(28,28,29,29,0)
,
which is equivalent to SOSI=(28,,29,,0)
.
To execute an application that has been created for IBM hardware (with
the parameter setting SOSI=(0E,0E,0F,0F,1)
applied) on Fujitsu
hardware without changing the application, use
SOSI=(0E,4028,0F,2940,1)
.