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