Re: Choose CCSID 65535 as system default?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only customers I've seen that leave it as that do it simply because
they don't know they're supposed to change it.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Piggybacking on the "Back for another VS Code setup" thread...
>
> Is there a specific reason why a shop would choose to default to CCSID
> 65535?  Especially(?) if they are based in the U.S. and deal only with U.S.
> customers, and whose business applications use only U.S. English?
>
> The biggest annoyance is running queries on IBM tables and getting
> unreadable results, then having to set the jobd to CCSID 37 to make them
> readable.
>
> - Dan Bale
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