Supported source and target encodings in AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer - AWS Mainframe Modernization

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Supported source and target encodings in AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer

AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer supports various data set types and code page conversion options.

Mainframe data set types

AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer supports the following mainframe data set types:

  • Non-VSAM: Sequential (PS), PDS, GDS, GDG

  • VSAM types: KSDS

Supported code pages

AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer supports the following code pages for data set conversion (from/to):

"BIG5" , "BIG5_HKSCS" , "CESU_8" , "EUC_JP" , "EUC_KR" , "GB18030" , "GB2312" , "GBK" , "IBM00858" , "IBM01140" , "IBM01141" , "IBM01142", "IBM01143" , "IBM01144" , "IBM01145" , "IBM01146" , "IBM01147" , "IBM01148" , "IBM01149" , "IBM037" , "IBM1026" , "IBM1047" , "IBM273" , "IBM277" , "IBM278" , "IBM280" , "IBM284" , "IBM285" , "IBM290" , "IBM297" , "IBM420" , "IBM424" , "IBM437" , "IBM500" , "IBM775" , "IBM850" , "IBM852" , "IBM855" , "IBM857" , "IBM860" , "IBM861" , "IBM862" , "IBM863" , "IBM864" , "IBM865" , "IBM866" , "IBM868" , "IBM869" , "IBM870" , "IBM871" , "IBM918" , "IBM_THAI" , "ISO_2022_CN" , "ISO_2022_JP" , "ISO_2022_JP_2" , "ISO_2022_KR" , "ISO_8859_1" , "ISO_8859_13" , "ISO_8859_15" , "ISO_8859_16" , "ISO_8859_2" , "ISO_8859_3" , "ISO_8859_4" , "ISO_8859_5" , "ISO_8859_6" , "ISO_8859_7" , "ISO_8859_8" , "ISO_8859_9" ,"JIS_X0201" , "JIS_X0212_1990" , "KOI8_R" , "KOI8_U" , "SHIFT_JIS" , "TIS_620" , "US_ASCII" , "UTF_16" , "UTF_16BE" , "UTF_16LE" , "UTF_32" , "UTF_32BE" , "UTF_32LE" , "UTF_8" , "WINDOWS_1250" , "WINDOWS_1251" , "WINDOWS_1252" , "WINDOWS_1253" ,"WINDOWS_1254" , "WINDOWS_1255" , "WINDOWS_1256" , "WINDOWS_1257" , "WINDOWS_1258" , "WINDOWS_31J" , "X_BIG5_HKSCS_2001" , "X_BIG5_SOLARIS" , "X_EUCJP_OPEN" , "X_EUC_JP_LINUX" , "X_EUC_TW" , "X_IBM1006" , "X_IBM1025" , "X_IBM1046" , "X_IBM1097" , "X_IBM1098" , "X_IBM1112" , "X_IBM1122" , "X_IBM1123" , "X_IBM1124" , "X_IBM1129" , "X_IBM1166" , "X_IBM1364" , "X_IBM1381" , "X_IBM1383" , "X_IBM29626C" , "X_IBM300" , "X_IBM33722" , "X_IBM737" , "X_IBM833" , "X_IBM834" , "X_IBM856" , "X_IBM874" , "X_IBM875" , "X_IBM921" , "X_IBM922" , "X_IBM930" , "X_IBM933" , "X_IBM935" , "X_IBM937" , "X_IBM939" , "X_IBM942" , "X_IBM942C" , "X_IBM943" , "X_IBM943C" , "X_IBM948" , "X_IBM949" , "X_IBM949C" , "X_IBM950" , "X_IBM964" , "X_IBM970" , "X_ISCII91" , "X_ISO_2022_CN_CNS" , "X_ISO_2022_CN_GB" , "X_ISO_8859_11" , "X_JIS0208" , "X_JISAUTODETECT" , "X_JOHAB", "X_MACARABIC" , "X_MACCENTRALEUROPE" , "X_MACCROATIAN" , "X_MACCYRILLIC" , "X_MACDINGBAT", "X_MACGREEK" , "X_MACHEBREW" , "X_MACICELAND" , "X_MACROMAN" , "X_MACROMANIA" , "X_MACSYMBOL" , "X_MACTHAI" , "X_MACTURKISH" , "X_MACUKRAINE" , "X_MS932_0213" , "X_MS950_HKSCS" , "X_MS950_HKSCS_XP" , "X_MSWIN_936" , "X_PCK" , "X_SJIS_0213" , "X_UTF_16LE_BOM" , "X_UTF_32BE_BOM" , "X_UTF_32LE_BOM" , "X_WINDOWS_50220" , "X_WINDOWS_50221" , "X_WINDOWS_874" , "X_WINDOWS_949" , "X_WINDOWS_950" , "X_WINDOWS_ISO2022j"