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

Release Bulletin Mainframe Connect™ Server 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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