SYGWXCPH customization module changes  Unicode support in the Client Option for IMS and MVS

Release Bulletin Mainframe Connect Client Option for IMS and MVS Version 12.6

New datatypes for Unicode support

Components of the Mainframe Connect IPS have two new datatypes using the UTF-16 encoding of the Unicode character. The new unichar and univarchar datatypes are independent of the existing char and varchar datatypes but behave similarly. Like the char datatype, unichar is a fixed-width, non-nullable datatype. Like the varchar datatype, univarchar is a variable-width, nullable datatype. Each unichar or univarchar character requires 2 bytes of storage, so a unichar or univarchar column consists of 16-bit Unicode values.

NoteComponents of the Mainframe Connect IPS also have a unitext datatype defined, but there is no special support for it.





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