Re: ASCII to EBCDIC with Parity

On 10/28/2016 4:03 PM, Chris Bipes wrote:

I have just changed our very old communications program from X.24 to IP. I am still communicating with the same Point of Sale terminals. These terminals use a parity bit. 1200baud 7E1.

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There seems to be some issues as currently the service provider that I communicate with is stripping the parity before sending the packet to me and then adding it back when send the response back to the POS terminal.

That sounds right to me.

Parity is a configuration item in the communications adapter, not in an
application program.

I would love to get rid of the parity manipulation by them but I need a good code page conversion. What would the ASCII value be that handles ASCII with Parity? 813 is not working correctly.

By definition, the serial comms configuration includes data rate, data
bit length, parity bits, parity type. All of these things are
independent of how the data are stored in a database. CCSID and code
page are exactly the opposite; these things describe how an application
program ought to interpret the bit patterns stored in the database.

That's probably too many words to say that I don't think you have a
parity issue. At least, not between you and the vendor.