unicode

Enable or disable Unicode support.

USYS$DB2_PARAMS unicode = on | off

Description

If this option is not specified, Unicode support is enabled (unicode = on). The degree of Unicode support depends on the whether the DB2 database uses Unicode or some other code page, and the value of the $DEF_CHARSET assignment setting.

Disabling Unicode

You can set unicode = off if you do not use Unicode. This setting makes the DB2 connector behave exactly as it did in earlier versions that did not support Unicode:

  • W packing code is disabled, and behaves the same as the C packing code; both map to Char, Varchar, or CLOB (depending on the field size)

  • With connector option nls=on, fields defined with packing code Raw are mapped to Graphic, Vargraphic, or DBCLOB, depending on the length of the field.

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