We have to maintain the same collating sequence between an oracle
database on NT and a db2 on z/OS. FOr this, we are planning to use an
ascii tablespace for the data on z/OS. The main processing of the data
is via huge batch jobs on z/OS, which are reading the data as ebcdic
data, a minor part is processing via db2 connect on NT as ascii data.

Is there any performance hit if we are using ascii tablespaces
compared to the use of ebcdic tablespaces?

Thanx