This Natural profile parameter can be used to overwrite the definitions
in the translation table NTTAB as
contained in the configuration module
NATCONFG. TAB
corresponds to the NTTAB macro
in the Natural parameter module.
| Possible settings | See TAB Parameter Syntax. | |
|---|---|---|
| Default setting | As specified within the macro
NTTAB in NATCONFG.
|
|
| Dynamic specification | yes | This parameter can only be specified dynamically. In the
Natural
parameter module, the macro
NTTAB is
used instead.
|
| Specification within session | no | |
Notes:
NTTAB table in NATCONFG is
the standard output translation table.
CP
profile parameter is set to a value other than OFF, values
specified with TAB are ignored. See also
Translation Tables in the
Unicode and Code Page Support documentation.
The following topics are covered below:
The TAB parameter is specified as follows:
| TAB=(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.
Or:
| TAB=OFF |
With TAB=OFF all (static and dynamic) definitions are reset
to the values specified in the macro NTTAB in
NATCONFG.
The NTTAB macro is specified as follows:
NTTAB a1,a2,b1,b2,c1,c2,...
Notes:
OFF cannot be specified with the macro
NTTAB, but only dynamically with the profile parameter
TAB.
With the TAB parameter, you must enclose the
entire string of character pairs in parentheses, for example:
TAB=(5E,'Ä','ö',78,FF,00,'ü','Ü')
NTTAB 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'.