Translating national characters to uppercase

In CICS®, translation of terminal user-input to uppercase characters can be done either by using the UCTRAN option on the PROFILE and TYPETERM definitions, or by using the EXEC CICS SET TERMINAL(termid) UCTRANST command.

However, some languages have characters which are not part of the set of EBCDIC characters translated by UCTRAN, and so are never translated to uppercase, regardless of what you have specified on your resource definitions. To translate these national characters, you have two options:

Use the XZCIN exit
Create a new terminal control table (TCT), based on your current TCT (or on the dummy TCT, DFHTCTDY, if you have TCT=NO specified in the SIT), and modify the translation table in it.

Whichever method you use, Character Data Representation Architecture is a useful reference for information on code pages.