Converting tables to Unicode Coded Character Set Identifier

I am in the process of developing a process on a iSeries that consists of a
ILE RPG extract, and a Java consumer. At the moment the Java component is
taking 2 seconds to process a transaction. Which, is not acceptable. One of
the IBM JDBC performance recommendations, from the Web site, is to convert
the tables to Unicode CCSID.

I know that one side affect of the Unicode CCSID is that it requires two
bytes per character. Which means increased DASD, and more data being sent
to the remote system (where the Java component resides).

Can someone tell me, in detail, what it will mean to my ILE RPG extract ?


Regards
Kevin Forster
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