Double byte environment

Chris,

In general your English language applications should run as-is on a
system also running Greek or Japanese applications.  You do have to
watch out for changed default system values due to possibly having
a different primary language installed (DBCS for instance).  System
defaults which propagate to job attributes (like LANGID and CCSID for
instance) may need to be explicitly assigned to user profiles.  I
would suggest getting a copy of your current job attributes and then
making sure they are all the same after moving to the multilingual
system environment.

It can get a bit more complex if one user needs access to both sets
of applications, but it does not sound like that is your case.

I would suggest reviewing the National Language Support manual, in
particular the chapter Planning for Multilingual Support.

Please note that the above is "in general".  It is always possible
that a given application cannot be moved as-is to other environments
(just as it's possible for a given application to break on release
boundaries, etc. though generally they don't).

Bruce

>
>We are upgrading to a double byte environment to cater for the Japanese and
>Greek alphabet.
>
>These Japanese/Greek users will only use a package that caters for those
>alphabets.
>
>However...
>we are unable to get clear answers from other software suppliers as to whether
>their software will continue to operate successfully.
>
>Do we need to recompile the programs or will they just adjust automatically so
>that our existing English language applications continue as normal.
>
>Any advice gratefully recieved.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>


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