In addition to the standard EBCDIC set of characters, High Level Assembler can use a user-specified translation table to convert the characters contained in character (C-type) data constants (DCs) and literals. High Level Assembler provides a translation table to convert the EBCDIC character set to the ASCII character set. You can supply a translation table using the TRANSLATE assembler option, described in the section "TRANSLATE" in the HLASM Programmer's Guide.

Self-defining Terms: Self-defining terms are not translated when a translation table is used, except for C-type character self-defining terms where the COMPAT(TRANSDT) assembler suboption in effect.