Using QMF

Using DBCS data in commands and procedures

You must issue QMF commands in English (SBCS). However, you can write the following parts of commands and procedures by using double-byte characters:

• Substitution variable names and values
• Comments
• Object names

  Object names are the names you supply with commands such as CONVERT, DRAW, and DISPLAY. If your database manager specifically supports double-byte characters in table names, you can use double-byte characters in object names only if you surround the characters with SO and SI delimiters and do not include any DBCS character that is represented internally with a single-byte double-quote character (EBCDIC code x'7F').

• Table names

  Unless your database specifically supports double-byte characters in table names, table names cannot contain any double-byte characters that are internally represented with single-byte double quotation marks.