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

Usually (there MAY be some exceptions - WTF do I know?) this can be changed
in the middle of the day, while a job is running, etc. I know that I did -
and never looked back.

Jerry C. Adams
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they
look forward to the trip. -Churchill
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Rob Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2022 7:30 AM
To: midrange400 midrange400 midrange400
Subject: Do not leave your system with system value QCCSID set to 65535

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-us
ing
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=information-language-identifiers-ass
ociated-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-ins
tallation
and here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=software-checklist-completing-i-upgr
ade-replacement


Rob Berendt
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