<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2005" /> <meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2005" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="reference" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="When to indicate a DBCS file" /> <meta name="abstract" content="This topic describes the situations in which you should indicate that a file is DBCS." /> <meta name="description" content="This topic describes the situations in which you should indicate that a file is DBCS." /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbal3fsup.htm" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rbal3whenindicate" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>When to indicate a DBCS file</title> </head> <body id="rbal3whenindicate"><a name="rbal3whenindicate"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">When to indicate a DBCS file</h1> <div><p>This topic describes the situations in which you should indicate that a file is DBCS.</p> <div class="section"><div class="p">You should indicate that a file is DBCS in one or more of the following situations: <ul><li>The file receives input, or displays or prints output, which has double-byte characters.</li> <li>The file contains double-byte literals.</li> <li>The file has double-byte literals in the DDS that are used in the file at processing time (such as constant fields and error messages).</li> <li>The DDS of the file includes DBCS keywords.</li> <li>The file stores double-byte data (database files).</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbal3fsup.htm" title="This section describes DBCS-capable device files and special considerations for working with DBCS-capable device files.">DBCS device file support</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>