Establishing a Character Set - TARA/ABU

Teradata Archive/Recovery Utility Reference

Product
TARA/ABU
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-07
dita:id
B035-2412
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Establishing a character set for a particular archive/recovery operation is supported. However, after the character set is established, do not attempt to change it while Teradata ARC is executing an operation. When a character set is established, that character set accepts only Teradata ARC statements input in that character set.

Establish a character set in one of the following ways:

  • At startup, invoke a parameter in JCL from z/OS. This user-specified character set overrides all other character sets previously specified or placed in default.
  • Specify a character set value in the HSHSPB parameter module for IBM mainframes. This takes second precedence.
  • If a character set is not user-specified or specified in HSHSPB, the default is the value in the system table, database DBC.Hosts.
  • If relying on the database DBC.Hosts table for the default character set name, ensure that the initial logon from the channel-attached side is in EBCDIC. Otherwise, Teradata ARC does not know the default character set before logon.

    Example s

    On z/OS, this JCL invokes ARCMAIN:

      //ARCCPY EXEC PGM=ARCMAIN,PARM=’SESSIONS=8 CHARSETNAME=KATAKANAEBCDIC’