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Specify language and codepage

In addition to specifying CICS® system initialization parameters for the CICS Web Interface and CICSPlex® SM local MAS execution, the Web User Interface requires an INITPARM system initialization parameter to specify the server language and the client codepage. You need to code EYU9VKEC to represent the language of the Web User Interface server and EYU9VWAN to represent the codepage of the client on the INITPARM parameter.

You can select the server language and the client codepage from Table 24 and specify them on the INITPARM parameter as follows:

INITPARM=(EYU9VKEC='xxx',EYU9VWAN='yyyy')

where xxx is the language identifier of the Web User Interface server and yyyy is the codepage identifier of the client.

Table 24. Language and codepage identifiers for INITPARM
Language Language identifier (EYU9VKEC) Client codepage Default client codepage identifier (EYU9VWAN)
US English ENU ISO-8859-1 (819) ENU1
Japanese JPN Shift-JIS (943) JPN1
Simplified Chinese CHS GB2312 (1381) CHS1
Simplified Chinese CHS GB18030 (05488) CHS2

For example, if your chosen language was English you would code the INITPARM parameter as follows:

INITPARM=(EYU9VKEC='ENU',EYU9VWAN='ENU1') 
Notes:
  1. The codepage identifier can be overridden for individual user requests by placing it in the URL used to access the Web User Interface. For example:
    http://hostname:port/CICSPlexSM/codepage
    where hostname is the name specified on the TCPIPHOSTNAME Web User Interface server initialization parameter and port is the value specified on the TCPIPPORT Web User Interface server initialization parameter. For information about the Web User Interface server initialization parameters see Specify the Web User Interface server initialization parameters.
  2. If the INITPARM system initialization parameter is not specified or if a value is not specified for EYU9VKEC or EYU9VWAN, the default values are ENU for the language and ENU1 for the codepage. However, operator messages are issued every time default values are used.
  3. A simplified Chinese web user interface server can support client browsers using either GB2312 (CHS1) or GB18030 (CHS2). For GB2312 clients, the server uses the EBCDIC codepage, 935. For GB18030 clients, the server assumes a second EBCDIC codepage, 1388, which is a superset of codepage 935. View sets and menus edited using a GB2312 client browser are stored in 935 and can be used in either client codepage. However, if a view set or menu is edited using a GB18030 client and characters not available in 935 are used, the resulting views set or menu are not displayed correctly on GB2312 clients. Note that all supplied messages and starter set views and menus, and view sets and menus customized using CICS TS 2.2 or earlier, use the 935 codepage and can be displayed on either client codepage.
  4. Some web browsers do not support all the available client code pages. For example, many older browsers do not support GB18030.
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