Benefits of Codepage conversion changes

CICS® is now able to:
  • accept UTF-8 and UTF-16 data as inputs
  • convert received data to another encoding format, and
  • subsequently convert results back to the appropriate UTF form on return.
The range of codepage pairs available for conversions is considerably extended.

Data for conversion is expected to come primarily from HTML, XHTML, and XML, but the new function is not limited to these, input data, from any interface that observes conventions for identifying itself as UTF, is processed with suitable conversion.