Code page identifier override

The CCSID parameter specifies the Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID) to override the default local code page identifier used by the Client daemon.

CCSID=<number>
Description
You can set the CCSID parameter to override the code page identifier which the Client daemon flows to the CICS server to indicate the code page of the data being sent to the server and the code page that the server is to return data in. By default the Client daemon uses the current operating system code page. If your platform has been updated for euro support, and the CICS® Server also has euro support, set the value to the correct CCSID number. For example, for Latin-1 countries, use a CCSID value of 858 to indicate that the code page 850 includes euro support. For code page 1252, specify a CCSID value of 5348. For support for Ja_JP locale on AIX®, specify a CCSID value of 943. If you use the CCSID parameter to change the code page identifier, when stored data on the server is retrieved by the CICS Transaction Gateway, it might be modified if the data includes characters for which the two code pages produce different characters. cicsterm always displays characters based on the local code page of the workstation, despite the value specified in the CCSID parameter.

This parameter is in the CLIENT section of the configuration file.

Default value
By default, this parameter is not included in the configuration file.
Configuration Tool
In the Configuration Tool, you can set the value of CCSID in the Code page identifier override field on the Resources tab in the Client daemon configuration page.

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