Consider a BTEQ session with the ASCII client character set.
The data from the cunicode, csjis, and clatin columns are returned to the BTEQ session in ASCII, as illustrated by the following figure.
Your application must declare its variables as mixed single-byte strings to store the data from the database.
Because the ASCII repertoire is much smaller than the repertoires of cunicode or csjis columns, characters may be converted to error characters on input, or the transaction may abort.