This topic describes the situations in which you should indicate
that a file is DBCS.
You should indicate that a file is DBCS in one or more of the
following situations:
- The file receives input, or displays or prints output, which has double-byte
characters.
- The file contains double-byte literals.
- 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).
- The DDS of the file includes DBCS keywords.
- The file stores double-byte data (database files).