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About Unicode Character Conversions on z/OS

Unicode provides an industry-standard, universal, character-encoding standard. Since Release 7.5, Siebel Business Applications have supported the Unicode character set. On the z/OS platform, Siebel Business Applications support the Unicode character set on all versions of DB2 for z/OS, New Function Mode and later releases.

On DB2 for z/OS, character conversions from Unicode code pages to ASCII and EBCDIC code pages are performed by the z/OS Unicode Services; these conversions are required if Siebel Business Applications are to function correctly. For information on setting up the z/OS Unicode Services, see the IBM document z/OS Support for Unicode: Using Unicode Services on the IBM z/OS information center Web site at

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