AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and ReferencePage 3-4
To understand the way in which the translation tables work, look at the
EBCDIC to ASCII table. Find the output value for the hexadecimal input
character 'C1.' (This is an uppercase A in EBCDIC.) Look down the left
column and find the entry C_. Look across the table until reaching the
intersection of the column headed by _1.
The table shows that the output value for the input value of 'C1' is '41.'
(This is an uppercase A in ASCII.) When this table is selected, an
uppercase EBCDIC A received by the 5250 OPTIMA is translated into
an uppercase ASCII A and sent to the printer.
Editing a Translation Table
The appropriate translation table for the input/output device combinations
may not exist. If this is the case, the user will have to edit an existing table.
A sample translation table report can be found in Chapter 5 
Maintenance & Troubleshooting. Before changing any translation table,
the user should print a translation table report as described in this chapter.
This report will send the printer a report of each of the translation tables.
Find the table that most closely matches the requirements from among
those tables labeled USER 1> to USER 7>. Move through the
configuration menu until reaching CONFIG: XLATES. Press g, then press
d and f until reaching the table to be edited. Press g again to enter the
character code translation table edit mode.
In the edit mode, notice that the table name is displayed on the left,
followed by a greater than sign (>). On the right is a hexadecimal value
representing the table location, a right arrow and the hexadecimal output
value. For example:
EBC->ASC> $00->$00
shows that for the EBCDIC to ASCII table, the value 00h translates to 00.
To move through the table, use s and g to move to either digit of the
hexadecimal value representing the table location, then use d and f to
change the value. For example, if looking at the display shown above, and
wanting to change the translation of the EBCDIC space character 40h,
press d four times. The result would be:
EBC->ASC> $40->$20