Hexadecimal format allows us to instruct a computer to display a color using three or six characters. For example, #000 will produce black. But how many words can be created in Hex and what colors do ...
Because the OS/390 host stores character data in EBCDIC format, you cannot read the transport file as ASCII data. In order to view an EBCDIC file in ASCII or hexadecimal format, you must interpret it.