Re: Do not leave your system with system value QCCSID set to 65535

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is sound advice.

I deal with many customers who leave it at 65535 and while it "works" not
everything will work, especially conversions to other CCSIDs/Code pages.

It's also something IBM recommends.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 7:29 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please do not leave your system value QCCSID set to 65535.  I like to
> think that IBM picked the most annoying CCSID so that you would change it
> to one more appropriate for your location.
>
> Many of us have changed that system value during the middle of day on our
> production lpars and have never looked back.  Me, I picked 37.  But your
> location may differ.
>
> Leaving it at 65535 will cause you no end of grief in data conversion,
> downloading, etc.
>
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=ccsids-recommendations-guidelines-using
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=information-language-identifiers-associated-default-ccsids
>
> Instead of hiding this under a topic of Globalization IBM should put it
> here:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=partition-checklist-completing-i-installation
> and here:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=software-checklist-completing-i-upgrade-replacement
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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