Code page identifier override

Enter a value indicating a Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID) to override your local code page identifier.

Use this setting if your platform has been updated for euro support, and the CICS® Server has euro support. For example, for Latin-1 countries, use a CCSID value of 858 to indicate that the code page 850 includes euro support. For code page 1252, specify a CCSID value of 5348.

Note:
  1. Regardless of the value in the Code page identifier override setting, cicsterm always displays characters based on the local code page of the workstation.
  2. If you use the CCSID to change the code page identifier, data that is already stored on the server might be modified when retrieved by the CICS Universal Client, if it includes characters for which the code points produce different characters.
  3. You do not have to supply a CCSID, because you can use the Use OEM code page setting to provide support for euro enabled code pages. Any value that you enter in the Code page identifier override field overrides the code page value generated using the Use OEM code page setting. You might do this, for example, to switch back to code page 850 or 1252 to indicate to the CICS server that the euro should not be used.

For details of the corresponding entry in the configuration file, see CCSID (CLIENT section of the configuration file).