Handle messages with a specific object-level CCSID

The objects listed in this topic support CCSIDs. Each of them has an object-level CCSID.

• Message files
• Message queues
• Job message queues
• System reply lists
• History log

The object-level CCSID is the CCSID in which all the messages in that object are encoded.

• Object-level coded character set identifier 65535
  CCSID 65535 is the default object-level CCSID for message files and message queues.
• Use a specific object-level CCSID for handling messages
  If the CCSID of an object is any value other than 65535 or 65534, all messages in that object are considered encoded in that CCSID. The object-level CCSID overrides the CCSID stored with the messages.