No changes are needed as part of the CICS® installation process. However, if
you have requirements which depend on support for the conversion of UTF-8
or UTF-16 data, you must enable the z/OS® conversion services and install a
conversion image which specifies the conversions that you want CICS to perform.
Refer
to the instructions in the z/OS Support for Unicode: Using Conversion
Services manual SA22-7649 to find out the steps needed to set up and
configure conversions supported though the operating system services.
If z/OS conversion
services are not enabled, a message is issued by CICS to indicate this. That message can
be suppressed if you do not need these services.
- If the message is encountered when starting a CICS region that is expected to make use
of these services, then an IPL is necessary to enable the z/OS conversion
services.
To discover the status of z/OS conversion services after an IPL,
use one of these commands from an MVS™ console:
- /D UNI
- To show whether z/OS conversion services were enabled.
- /D UNI,ALL
- To show whether z/OS conversion services were enabled, and which conversions
are supported by the system.
For details of this, see the
z/OS Support for Unicode: Using Conversion
Services manual SA22-7649