Re: Choose CCSID 65535 as system default?

Slight correction...

It used to get shipped as the default. (And the old paper "Start Here"
docs had a step where you were supposed to change it.)
IBM stopped doing so, around v5 I think.

But how many IBM i folks are setting up a machine from scratch now-a-days?

Charles

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Nobody chooses that. It gets shipped that way as a default. Basically to
be so doggone obnoxious that you change it. It's often left that way
because, well, change is evil. That, and people have the belief that yes,
I know that a value of CCSID of 65535 causes a bazillion problems, but if I
change it might that possibly cause a single issue? "Better the devil you
know than the devil you don't."

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=information-ccsid-values-defined-i

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=globalization-reference-information
I, and many others in the US, have changed QCCSID to 37 in the middle of
the business day and never had any negative ramifications.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM 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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