How does NLS affect EBCDIC Data

[Bill_G]

I have a question regarding DS and how it handles various code sets. From searching the forum, i see that DS uses UV-UTF8 as an internal code set.

If NLS is enabled and I have an EBCDIC source and target with transformation in the middle, does DS convert the EBCDIC code set to UV-UTF8? If so can this conversion be avoided by assigning an EBCDIC code set to the job?

Thanks for your response in advance.