Support for the national language of any country requires the proper
handling of a set of characters.
A cross-system support for the management of character information
is provided with the Character Data Representation Architecture (CDRA). CDRA
defines the coded character set identifier (CCSID) values to
identify the code points used to represent characters, and to convert these
codes (character data), as needed to preserve their meanings.
Keep these considerations in mind when you are using CCSIDs with
DDM:
- Data is converted to the process CCSID of the source job if both the source
and target servers support CCSIDs.
- Data is not converted if one server is an iSeries™ server that
supports CCSIDs and the other server is any other server that does not support
CCSIDs.
- A file created on an iSeries target
server by any source server that does not support CCSIDs is always created
with CCSID 65535.
- The SBMRMTCMD (Submit Remote Command) command can be
used to change the file CCSID on an iSeries target
server by specifying the CHGPF (Change Physical File) command
and the CCSID parameter.