Release Notes (FixPak 3)

The Simplified Chinese locale on AIX operating systems

3AIX has changed the code set bound to the Simplified Chinese locale 3Zh_CN on: 3

• 3AIX version 5.1.0000.0011 or higher
• 3AIX version 5.1.0 with maintenance level 2 or later 3

3The code set has been changed from GBK (code page 1386) to GB18030 (code 3page 5488 or 1392). Since DB2 Universal Database for AIX supports the 3GBK code set natively and the GB18030 code set via Unicode, DB2 Universal 3Database will default the Zh_CN locale's code set to ISO 8859-1 (code 3page 819), and in some operations will also default the locale's 3territory to the United States (US).

To work around this limitation, you have two options:

• You can override the locale's code set from GB18030 to GBK and the territory from US to China (whose territory ID is CN and territory code is 86).
• You can use a different Simplified Chinese locale.

If you choose to use the first option, issue the following commands:

db2set DB2CODEPAGE=1386
db2set DB2TERRITORY=86
db2 terminate
db2stop
db2start 

If you choose to use the second option, change your locale from Zh_CN to either ZH_CN or zh_CN. The ZH_CN locale's code set is Unicode (UTF-8), while the zh_CN locale's code set is eucCN (code page 1383).