Overriding defaults and creating new tables on the mainframe  Example: code page 1025

Appendix A: Customization Options

Defining new character set entries

In using the IBM Unicode conversion environment and services, the SYGWMCXL macro is used to create definition entries for all the character sets that will be used at a particular site and that are not already defined as system character sets. Table A-3 describes the parameters used in the SYGWMCXL macro to create a definition entry:

Table A-3: SYGWMCXL macro parameters

Parameter

Value

CHARSET

The name of the SBCS or DBCS character set.

CHARSET BYTES

An S to denote SBCS, or a D to denote DBCS.

CCSID

The CCSID for the character set.

CHARSETYPE

The type of character set. A denotes ASCII, and E denotes EBCDIC.

CHARSIZE

The maximum length of a character, from 1 to 4 bytes.

PAD

The padding character. The value of this parameter depends on the character set type. For ASCII, the padding character is 20. For EBCDIC, the padding character is 40.

The following examples illustrate definitions for Russian and Japanese EBCDIC character sets, which are code pages 1025 and 939, respectively.





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