Session Character Sets - Access Module

Teradata Tools and Utilities Access Modules User Guide
Product
Access Module
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-06-06
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

All Teradata utilities (except for BTEQ) notify the Teradata Access Module for JMS about the session character set they use. Specify the session character set name for each utility as follows:

  • Teradata FastExport, Teradata MultiLoad, or Teradata TPump – Specify the ‑c character‑set‑name parameter at runtime in the command line to set the session character set name.
  • BTEQ or Teradata FastLoad – Specify the .SET SESSION CHARSET command in the script.
  • Teradata PT – Specify the USING CHARACTER SET <charset‑id> option preceding the DEFINE JOB statement in the script.

    • The Teradata Access Module for JMS uses a fixed mapping of Teradata session character sets to Java character sets. This mapping (Table 16) is a default properties file, called charsets.properties, in the installation folder of the access module. For a given Teradata session character set, the corresponding Java character set is used to encode bytes sent to the message queue system, and to decode bytes received from the queue system. You can add new character sets to the properties file and edit existing mappings.

     

    Table 16: Character Set Mapping 

    Teradata Session Character Set

    Java Character Set

    ASCII

    ASCII

    UTF‑8

    UTF‑8

    UTF‑16

    UnicodeBigUnmarked (for big‑endian platforms)

    UTF‑16

    UnicodeLittleUnmarked (for little‑endian platforms)

    EBCDIC037_0E

    Cp037

    EBCDIC273_0E

    Cp273

    EBCDIC277_0E

    Cp277

    HANGULEBCDIC933_1II

    Cp933

    HANGULKSC5601_2R4

    MS949

    KANJIEBCDIC5026_0I

    Cp930

    KANJIEBCDIC5035_0I

    Cp939

    KANJIEUC_0U

    EUC_JP

    KANJISJIS_0S

    MS932

    KATAKANAEBCDIC

    CP930

    LATIN1_0A

    ISO8859_1

    LATIN1252_0A

    Cp1252

    LATIN9_0A

    ISO8859_15_FDIS

    SCHEBCDIC935_2IJ

    Cp935

    SCHGB2312_1T0

    EUC_CN

    TCHBIG5_1R0

    BIG5

    TCHEBCDIC937_3IB

    Cp937

    If ASCII is specified as the character set, the Teradata Access Module for JMS uses the platform default encoding. If that default encoding cannot represent certain characters in a platform‑specific byte sequence, character conversions might produce minor differences. If an exact match is required, use the UTF‑8 session character set to avoid conversions between character sets.