Japanese Language Support

COBOL Analyzer provides full support for mainframe-based Cobol or PL/I Japanese-language applications. Make sure you set Windows system and user locales to Japanese before registering source files.

You can register Japanese source files downloaded in text or binary mode:

• Source files downloaded in text (workstation) mode must be in Shift-JIS encoding. If Shift-Out and Shift-In delimiters were replaced with spaces or removed during downloading, COBOL Analyzer restores them at registration.
• Source files downloaded in binary (mainframe) mode are recoded by COBOL Analyzer from EBCDIC to Shift-JIS encoding at registration.

Use the options on the Registration > Source Files tab of the Workspace Options window to specify how DBCS escape control characters were handled in source file downloaded in text mode:

• Replaced with spaces if DBCS escape control characters were replaced with spaces.
• Removed if DBCS escape control characters were removed.

• Retained or not used if DBCS escape control characters were left as is or were not used.

We recommend you preserve delimiters during download. Replacing delimiters with spaces during download generally yields better restoration results than removing them.

In all COBOL Analyzer tools that offer search and replace facilities, you can insert Shift-Out and Shift-In delimiters into patterns using Ctrl-Shift-O and Ctrl-Shift-I, respectively. You need only insert the delimiters if you are entering mixed strings.