Usage Notes
The Character Set Pointer field specifies the address of a one-byte character set code or a thirty-byte character set name. It also specifies the character set to be used on this and subsequent requests and responses.
The following character sets that are supplied by the server are known to CLIv2:
ARABIC1256_6A0 ASCII CYRILLIC1251_2A0 EBCDIC EBCDIC037_0E EBCDIC273_0E EBCDIC277_0E HANGUL949_7R0 HANGULEBCDIC933_1II HANGULKSC5601_2R4 HEBREW1255_5A0 KANJI932_1S0 KANJIEBCDIC5026_0I KANJIEBCDIC5035_0I KANJIEUC_0U KANJISJIS_0S KATAKANAEBCDIC LATIN1_0A LATIN1250_1A0 LATIN1252_0A LATIN1252_3A0 LATIN1254_7A0 LATIN1258_8A0 LATIN9_0A SCHEBCDIC935_2IJ SCHGB2312_1T0 SCHINESE936_6R0 TCHBIG5_1R0 TCHEBCDIC937_3IB TCHINESE950_8R0 THAI874_4A0 UTF16 UTF8
In the clispb.dat file, Character Set Pointer is called charset_id. The field contains either the character set code or the character set name.
For more details about the character set support, see International Character Set Support, B035-1125.
| Language | Variable Name |
|---|---|
| COBOL: | DBCAREA-CSC-PTR |
| C: DBCAREA.H: | inter_ptr |
| Routine | Action Taken |
|---|---|
| DBCHINI: | writes |
| DBCHCL: | reads |
| Used by | Action Taken |
|---|---|
| application program | writes |
This field is used in conjunction with the Set Character Set field in the options fields.