WebSphere Message Brokers
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Writer: Kate Hostler

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Changing your locale on z/OS

You can change your system locale on z/OS.

If you want to change your system locale on z/OS, set the LANG, LC_ALL, and NLSPATH variables. See Installation information - broker and User Name Server and Installation information - Configuration Manager for further information.

The locale is set in the appropriate component profile (BIPBPROF for the broker, BIPCPROF for the Configuration Manager, BIPUPROF for the User Name Server) and you must run BIPGEN to create the component ENVFILE.

You can use the UNIX System Services (USS) executable locale to show your current locale. The command locale -a displays all the locales currently installed on the machine. Refer to the operating system documentation for information about adding new locales. If you add a new locale after you have installed WebSphere Message Broker, install that locale's message catalogs from the original install media.

You can set WebSphere Message Broker to operate with a specific code page. Set the code page after a period in the LANG and LC_ALL variable. This example sets the locale to En_us and the code page to IBM-1140 (EBCDIC En_us with euro):
LANG=En_us.IBM-1140
LC_ALL=En_us.IBM-1140
Make sure that the selected code page is one of the Supported code pages. If the code page is not in the list, either use a code page that is in the list, or generate a new code page converter.
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Supported processors
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