OK to change QCCSID from 65535 to 37?

[bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>
>Does anybody know why the untranslateable 65535 is still the default?
>

A strong desire for continued employment?

Seriously, changing the QCCSID default value from 65535 to the preferred
value (as documented in the National Language Support Appendix) should
cause minimal impact to those systems that run in only one national
language and CCSID.  But it could be an absolute nightmare for a
multi-lingual or multi-CCSID system, which has been running effectively
(perhaps not safely but good enough for the user) with 65535 since
V2R1.1, that is suddenly thrown into an active CCSID conversion
environment.  Trying to explain what all may go wrong in this situation
is difficult without pictures (and lots of hand waving) but historically
"incorrect" data that has been viewed for years as "correct" will
suddenly be "correctly" converted by the system to what the user will
now perceive as "incorrect" data (if you follow all that).

Bruce Vining


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