Unicode Conversion Issues

I am working on a unicode conversion for an existing package. The requirements are that "certain" fields such as customer names and addresses should be unicode enabled so that users could enter these in any character set.

What I have done so far is change the DDS for the physical file to this:

A A1ADR1 R G REFFLD(ADR1)
A CCSID(1200)

Data type to "G" (Graphic) and the CCSID to 1200 (Unicode).

The field length for the character field in the field reference file is 35A.

I have changed the file and verified (using excel) that I can put as well as retrieve Japanese characters from the file.

The problem is with the 5250 interface.

When I define the fields on the display with a reference to the database file like so:

A A1ADR2 R O 5 2

The field suddenly uses 70 characters on the screen instead of 35. (On output and "both" fields the first 35 of these are high-lighted).

BUT regardless of whether the display file field is defined as character or graphic I can still not make the japanese characters that I "tweaked" into the file show on a 5250 session.

It seems as if I am missing something here. OR - do I require a separate version of Client Access to display japanese characters? I have tried to create sessions with different code-page but nothing seems to work.

Any advice greatly apreciated!


Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards
Åke Olsson

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