Using automatic code set conversion
Most commands that perform file input and output allow automatic code set conversion of files that are tagged as text with a code set. For example, a file with ISO8859-1 (ASCII) content that is tagged with TXT, ISO8859-1 can be converted to IBM-1047 (EBCDIC) for processing by z/OS® UNIX shells and utilities. Automatic conversion is controlled by configuration parameters and environment variables. For more information about automatic conversion, see z/OS UNIX System Services Planning.
Restriction: For commands that can specify
text conversion (see Specifying the text conversion, automatic conversion can take
place between IBM-1047 and any code sets that Unicode Service supports.
For sh, automatic conversion is supported with
the limitation of the SBCS code pages of the locale and SBCS shell
scripts. For tsch, automatic conversion is supported
with the limitation of the SBCS code page of the locale. For other
commands, automatic conversion can only be supported between the IBM-1047
and ISO8859-1 code sets.