When converting from a workstation Japanese character set to a mainframe Japanese character set, you frequently need to adjust the length. The adjustment depends on which character sets, datatypes, and language are being used.
Descriptions of eucjis data also apply to deckanji, with the exception that deckanji does not include hankaku katakana.
Open ServerConnect character datatypes are TDSCHAR and TDSVARYCHAR.
Open ServerConnect graphic datatypes are TDSGRAPHIC and TDSVARYGRAPHIC.
Open ServerConnect datatypes with “VARY” in the name have a two-byte length (“LL”) specification at the beginning of each data field. Do not count these “LL” bytes when calculating the length of the field.
