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About Unicode Conversion Tables

Unicode provides an industry-standard, universal, character-encoding standard. Since Release 7.5, Siebel Business Applications have supported the Unicode character set. On the zSeries platform, however, Siebel Business Applications only support the Unicode character set on DB2 for z/OS V8 running in New Function Mode.

You must configure the z/OS Unicode Conversion Services with the conversions required by the codepages specific to your DB2 subsystem. Because of the difficulty in determining all the conversions required for the conversion image, it is recommended that you use the prebuilt image provided on z/OS V1.R2 and later, as provided by the IBM APAR OA04069. This preloads a Unicode conversion image with many tables that support a substantial number of codepage conversions.