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IBM ships the systems with the system value QCCSID set to 65535 due to compatibility concerns dating back to before CCSIDs were implemented. Namely, if QCCSID were non-65535 then most systems would start having job CCSIDs that were not 65535 and all kinds of CCSID conversions might start taking place (database reads/writes, message queues, etc.) which might disrupt currently existing applications. Per the National Language Support manual, IBM does recommend that users change this system value in order to enable CCSID/CDRA conversions, but IBM does not default to this. Once you change QCCSID, then future release upgrades (slip installs) will retain the changed value. As you pointed out, this is one of the reasons why job default CCSIDs came about back in V3R1 (for where IBM knew 65535 was most likely not the best long term tag to use for a file, etc.). Bruce > >I can't remember if IBM ship QCCSID with 65535 or if that only happens if >you slip install a release that already has 65535. >
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