Specifying CCSIDs for fields and columns for Base and DB2 template

You can use the CCSID Selection dialog to specify CCSIDs for columns for the currently edited template. This option is applicable for any text fields and the value is used to interpret the text value in the field. For example, this value is used to convert the underlying data for display in the formatted editor.

CCSID selection dialog
CCSID selection dialog image

This is an optional attribute which you can used to overwrite the default encoding associated with the edit session which is specified in the editor options dialog as you start the edit session. If no CCSID is specified or the specified CCSID cannot be used to convert text (not all CCSIDs are translatable on the client), the default encoding associated with the edit session will be used instead.

When CCSIDs are specified in templates used in conjunction with File Manager's copy utility function, the specified CCSIDs are used to convert the source text value to the destination text value when mismatch of associated CCSIDs is discovered. For example, if a source field CCSID is set to EBCDIC and its corresponding destination field CCSID is set to UNICODE, File Manager's copy utility function converts the text value from EBCDIC to UNICODE during the copy operation.