UTAB1 - Lower-to-Upper-Case Translation

This Natural profile parameter can be used to overwrite the definitions in the translation table NTUTAB1 as contained in the configuration module NATCONFG.

Possible settings See UTAB1 Parameter Syntax.
Default setting As specified within the macro NTUTAB1 in NATCONFG.
Dynamic specification yes This parameter can only be specified dynamically. In the Natural parameter module, the macro NTUTAB1 is used instead.
Specification within session no  

Notes:

  1. UTAB1 corresponds to the NTUTAB1 macro in the Natural parameter module.
  2. The NTUTAB1 table is used for lower-to-upper-case translation.
  3. If the CP profile parameter is set to a value other than OFF, values specified with UTAB1 are ignored. See also Translation Tables in the Unicode and Code Page Support documentation.

The following topics are covered below:

UTAB1 Parameter Syntax

The UTAB1 parameter is specified as follows:

UTAB1=(a1,a2,b1,b2,c1,c2,...)

You specify pairs of characters, the first character of a pair being the character to be translated, the second character of a pair being the character into which the first character is to be translated.

You can specify each character either as the one-byte character itself (enclosed in apostrophes) or as the hexadecimal representation of that character.

With the UTAB1 parameter, you must enclose the entire string of character pairs in parentheses; see Example of UTAB1 Parameter.

Or:

UTAB1=OFF

With UTAB1=OFF all (static and dynamic) definitions are reset to the values specified in the macro NTUTAB1 in NATCONFG.

NTUTAB1 Macro Syntax

The NTUTAB1 macro is specified as follows: 

         NTUTAB1 a1,a2,b1,b2,c1,c2,...

Notes:

  1. For an explanation of the syntax elements, see UTAB1 Parameter Syntax. For an example, see Example of NTUTAB1 Macro.
  2. The value OFF cannot be specified with the macro NTUTAB1, but only dynamically with the profile parameter UTAB1.

Example of UTAB1 Parameter

UTAB1=(5E,'Ä','ö',78,FF,00,'ü','Ü')

In this example, the character represented by H'5E' is translated into 'Ä', 'ö' into the character represented by H'78', the character represented by H'FF' into the character represented by H'00', and 'ü' into 'Ü'.

Example of NTUTAB1 Macro

         NTUTAB1 5E,'Ä','ö',78,FF,00,'ü','Ü'

In this example, the character represented by H'5E' is translated into 'Ä', 'ö' into the character represented by H'78', the character represented by H'FF' into the character represented by H'00', and 'ü' into 'Ü'.