Use data conversion support

All transport independent remote procedure call (TI-RPC) application programming interfaces (APIs) are enabled for National Language Support (NLS) on i5/OS™.

This support has been added to a list of eXternal Data Representation (XDR) functions. These functions allow data to be communicated between clients and services that are in different code pages. The system administrator maintains the /etc/rpcnls file to associate the code pages with a remote client. The XDR functions use the information in the /etc/rpcnls file to provide an implicit data conversion. The following XDR functions have implicit data conversion routines built in:

xdr_char() (single byte only)
xdr_u_char() (single byte only)
xdr_double_char (single and double byte)
xdr_string() (single and double byte)
xdr_wrapstring() (single and double byte)

To access the /etc/rpcnls file on i5/OS in iSeries™ Navigator, complete the following steps:

Open iSeries Navigator.
Expand the Network folder.
Expand the Servers folder.
Click the i5/OS server.
Right-click RPC and from the menu, select Properties.
Click the Data Conversion Support tab.
Note: You must have *IOSYSCFG authority to view this information.