1. Microservices Architecture Documentation
  2. Prepare
  3. Prepare Databases
  4. Db2 for i
  5. Db2 for i: Supported Data Types, Objects, and Operations
  6. Supported Character Sets

Supported Character Sets

The default behavior of a DB2 for i Extract is to convert all character data to Unicode. The overhead of the performance of the conversion to UTF-8 for the text data has been substantially reduced. However, if you want to send data in its native character set you can use the parameter DBOPTIONS USEDATABASEENCODING to override the default behavior.