Unicode on Demand works very well in z/OS 1.7, with OA16037, OA18799 and OA19072. I talked a bit about this at the Bit Bucket at SHARE in Tampa:
http://www.share.org/client_files/docupload/Bit%20Bucket%2033%20(21).pdf Please see my section of this presentation, titled "Unicode for the Smart and Lazy", where I talk about our experience with Unicode on z/OS 1.7 running DB2 version 8 and no pre-built Unicode conversion image. Brian On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:50:32 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: >In z/OS V1.7 I have found the following information > >Unicode dynamic table loading: Unicode support will be enhanced to >dynamically load conversion tables on demand. This can help eliminate the >setup tasks previously required for Unicode, including the CUNUNIxx parmlib >member IMAGE statement updates. A new operator command will be provided that >can allow tables to be added, removed, and replaced. > >How exactly will I know this is working. Does IBM now ship all the possible >variations of UNICODE and therefore has a table to load from when needed? >Does this truly remove my need to gen the CUNUNIxx member? I am more than >willing to drop that process from my system creation process. I find so >little information on this and how it affects my mainframe applications >(DB2, MQ, IMS, etc.) > > >Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
