diff --git a/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_bytes_4690.py b/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_bytes_4690.py
index de51d1f474..fd1fb9b3be 100644
--- a/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_bytes_4690.py
+++ b/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_bytes_4690.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import shutil
 
 import pytest
-from test_det_programs import _cobol, _java, _java_run, program
+from test_det_programs import ROOT, _cobol, _java, _java_run, _java_run_batch, program  # noqa: F401
 
 E2E = pytest.mark.skipif(os.environ.get("EQUIVALENCE_E2E") != "1" or not shutil.which("docker") or _java() is None,
                          reason="needs Docker and a JDK 17 (JAVA_HOME / JDK_17)")  # fmt: skip
@@ -53,3 +53,36 @@ def test_every_byte_hex_literal_and_display_equal_gnucobols(mode, tmp_path):
     assert isinstance(want, bytes) and want
     assert b"\xc3\xbf" not in got
     assert got == want
+
+
+def high_byte_program(name: str) -> str:
+    """One MOVE X'hh' TO R and DISPLAY per byte 0x80-0xFF (all above X'7F')."""
+    proc: list[str] = []
+    for b in range(0x80, 0x100):
+        proc += [f"MOVE X'{b:02X}' TO R", "DISPLAY R"]
+    return program(name, ["01 R PIC X."], proc)
+
+
+@E2E
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "charset",
+    [
+        "ISO-8859-1",
+        *(
+            pytest.param(c, marks=pytest.mark.xfail(strict=True, reason="#4698: hex-literal bytes do not round-trip"))
+            for c in ("IBM037", "IBM1047", "windows-1252")
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("mode", ["bytes", "typed", "groups"])
+def test_batch_sysout_high_bytes_equal_gnucobols(charset, mode, tmp_path):
+    """#4697: the batch Sysout (not the standalone one) writes the record charset's bytes for DISPLAY of X'80'..X'FF',
+    byte for byte as cobc does, under latin-1 and under single-byte EBCDIC record charsets."""
+    pytest.importorskip("tree_sitter_language_pack")
+    src = high_byte_program("HIBATCH")
+    cob = tmp_path / "cobol"
+    cob.mkdir()
+    want = _cobol(src, cob, raw=True)
+    got = _java_run_batch("HIBATCH", src, tmp_path, [], mode != "bytes", mode == "groups", raw=True, charset=charset)
+    assert isinstance(got, bytes) and want
+    assert got == want, f"{charset}: java {got[:40]!r} != cobol {want[:40]!r}"
diff --git a/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_programs.py b/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_programs.py
index 1d6ce85212..fcb7e47300 100644
--- a/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_programs.py
+++ b/tests/cobol_mainframe/test_det_programs.py
@@ -1301,21 +1301,30 @@ def _java_run(
                           check=True).stdout  # fmt: skip
 
 
-def _batch_package(srcdir: Path) -> None:
+def _batch_package(srcdir: Path, charset: str = "ISO-8859-1") -> None:
     """The generated project's batch package (CobolFiles, DatasetResolver, Dd, MainframeClock, Sysout, CobolAbend)
     from the batch forge's own templates, without Spring: what a det port with files runs on."""
     from gitgalaxy.tools.cobol_to_java.cobol_to_java_batch_forge import _RUNTIME
 
     for cls in ("CobolFiles", "DatasetResolver", "Dd", "MainframeClock", "Sysout", "CobolAbend"):
         text = _RUNTIME[cls].replace("{pkg}", f"{PKG}.batch").replace("{zone}", "UTC")
-        text = text.replace("{record_charset}", "ISO-8859-1")
+        text = text.replace("{record_charset}", charset)
         text = re.sub(r"^import org\.springframework\..*\n|^@Component\n", "", text, flags=re.M)
         text = re.sub(r'@Value\("(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*"\)\s*', "", text)
         (srcdir / PKG / "batch" / f"{cls}.java").parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         (srcdir / PKG / "batch" / f"{cls}.java").write_text(text)
 
 
-def _java_run_batch(name: str, src: str, work: Path, dds: list[str], typed: bool = False, groups: bool = False) -> str:
+def _java_run_batch(
+    name: str,
+    src: str,
+    work: Path,
+    dds: list[str],
+    typed: bool = False,
+    groups: bool = False,
+    raw: bool = False,
+    charset: str = "ISO-8859-1",
+) -> str:
     """As _java_run, on the batch runtime (DetFiles): runBatch with one DD per dataset, each a file of its name in
     a datasets directory."""
     from gitgalaxy.tools.cobol_to_java.det import program as P
@@ -1333,11 +1342,11 @@ def _java_run_batch(name: str, src: str, work: Path, dds: list[str], typed: bool
     for rel, text in [(f"service/{r.service}.java", java), *runtime.items()]:
         (srcdir / PKG / rel).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         (srcdir / PKG / rel).write_text(text)
-    _batch_package(srcdir)
+    _batch_package(srcdir, charset)
     rec = srcdir / PKG / "entity/vsam/CobolRecords.java"
     rec.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     rec.write_text(f"package {PKG}.entity.vsam;\npublic final class CobolRecords {{\n    public static java.nio.charset."
-                   "Charset charset() {\n        return java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1;\n    }\n}\n")  # fmt: skip
+                   "Charset charset() {\n        return java.nio.charset.Charset.forName(\"" + charset + "\");\n    }\n}\n")  # fmt: skip
     data = work / "datasets"
     data.mkdir()
     b = f"{PKG}.batch"
@@ -1350,7 +1359,7 @@ def _java_run_batch(name: str, src: str, work: Path, dds: list[str], typed: bool
     jdk = _java()
     files = [str(f) for f in srcdir.rglob("*.java")]
     subprocess.run([str(jdk / "javac"), "-nowarn", "-d", str(work / "classes"), *files], check=True)  # noqa: S603
-    return subprocess.run([str(jdk / "java"), "-cp", str(work / "classes"), "Main"], capture_output=True, text=True,  # noqa: S603
+    return subprocess.run([str(jdk / "java"), "-cp", str(work / "classes"), "Main"], capture_output=True, text=not raw,  # noqa: S603
                           check=True).stdout  # fmt: skip