Important note: Many mainframe installations own source code that contains embedded hex values. These hex values are handled by
MFDAS command line, in two different ways, depending upon your requirements:
- The first method, the default, is to simply translate these hex values to ASCII, assuming that the workstation applications
handle them properly.
- The second method is more integrated with other
Micro Focus applications, and might be the desired technique to be used. This method, will detect all imbedded hex values that translate
to less than x'1f' and insert a null byte in front of each of them. This is the
Micro Focus MDECONV technique, and all
Micro Focus COBOL applications will properly detect this. To turn on this method, you must set an environment variable specified as
MFAIMBEDDEDHEX=COBOL. One application environment setup can have this environment variable active, while another application, on the same workstation,
can have it turned off.