Use this utility to edit an ASCII text string according to the editing rules of ANSI X9.9-4. It edits the text that the source_text parameter supplies according to these rules. The rules are listed here in the order in which they are applied. It returns the result in the target_text parameter.

1. This service replaces each carriage-return (CR) character and each line-feed (LF) character with a single-space character.
2. It replaces each lowercase alphabetic character (a through z) with its equivalent uppercase character (A through Z).
3. It deletes all characters other than:
   • Alphabetics A...Z
   • Numerics 0...9
   • Space
   • Comma ,
   • Period .
   • Dash -
   • Solidus /
   • Asterisk *
   • Open parenthesis (
   • Close parenthesis )
4. It deletes all leading space characters.
5. It replaces all sequences of two or more space characters with a single-space character.

This utility does not support invocation in AMODE(64).