Unicode data

CICS® on System/390® provides limited support for Unicode-encoded character data. The support allows workstations to share UCS-2 or UTF-8 encoded data with the System/390 provided, that no conversion is required.

Table 1. Unicode
CLINTCP SRVERCP in CCSID CPGID Comments
1200 UCS-2 T01 01200 01400 UCS-2 level 3, maximal (growing) character set
1208 UTF-8 T01 01200 01400 UTF-8 based on UCS-2 level 3, maximal (growing) character set
13488 T01 13488 01400 UCS-2 level 1 (level 3 tolerant), subset (fixed) character set