Table 2-13 lists the datatypes that are used with Japanese characters.
Datatype |
Used with |
Uses SO/SI or SS2 |
Length measures |
|---|---|---|---|
TDSCHAR TDSVARYCHAR |
DBCS and SBCS. At the workstation and at the mainframe. |
IBM Kanji: Uses SO/SI with double-byte characters. EUC-JIS: Uses SS2 with hankaku katakana. |
For all character sets: Number of bytes. Maximum length for TDSCHAR and TDSVARYCHAR is 255. |
TDSGRAPHIC TDSVARYGRAPHIC |
DBCS only. At mainframe only. |
No. |
Number of characters. Maximum length is 127. |
