The CCSID parameter specifies the
Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID) to override the default local
code page identifier used by the Client daemon.
CCSID=<number>- Description
- You can set the CCSID parameter to override
the code page identifier which the Client daemon flows to the CICS
server to indicate the code page of the data being sent to the server
and the code page that the server is to return data in. By default
the Client daemon uses the current operating system code page. If
your platform has been updated for euro support, and the CICS® Server
also has euro support, set the value to the correct CCSID number.
For example, for Latin-1 countries, use a CCSID value of 858 to indicate
that the code page 850 includes euro support. For code page 1252,
specify a CCSID value of 5348. For support for Ja_JP locale on AIX®, specify
a CCSID value of 943. If you use the CCSID parameter
to change the code page identifier, when stored data on the server
is retrieved by the CICS Transaction Gateway, it might
be modified if the data includes characters for which the two code
pages produce different characters. cicsterm always
displays characters based on the local code page of the workstation,
despite the value specified in the CCSID parameter.
This parameter is in the CLIENT section of the configuration file.
- Default value
- By default, this parameter is not included in the configuration
file.
- Configuration Tool
- In the Configuration Tool, you can set the value of CCSID in
the Code page identifier override field on
the Resources tab in the Client
daemon configuration page.