Data conversion considerations

Your application program has full control over any data conversions that may be required.  Because the mainframe usually operates on EBCDIC data and the BMC AMI DevX Workbench for Eclipse usually operates on UTF-8 data, it is often desirable to convert data being transmitted from EBCDIC-UTF8 or UTF8-EBCDIC depending on the direction of data flow.  Data conversion is not required; however doing so allows textual data (such as source code, listings, documents) to be displayed properly on the receiving platform.  Binary data is generally not suitable for conversion. For more information on how to perform data conversion, see Data-conversions-between-platforms.