Given our extreme risk aversion here, I suspect there's a less than zero chance we'll ever get to change the system default, especially since it appears to affect only querying system tables, and the workaround is to change the job and/or job description to use CCSID 37.
- Dan Bale
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2025 12:53 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Choose CCSID 65535 as system default?
Nobody chooses that. It gets shipped that way as a default. Basically to be so doggone obnoxious that you change it. It's often left that way because, well, change is evil. That, and people have the belief that yes, I know that a value of CCSID of 65535 causes a bazillion problems, but if I change it might that possibly cause a single issue? "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't."
I, and many others in the US, have changed QCCSID to 37 in the middle of the business day and never had any negative ramifications.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Piggybacking on the "Back for another VS Code setup" thread...
Is there a specific reason why a shop would choose to default to CCSID
65535? Especially(?) if they are based in the U.S. and deal only with U.S.
customers, and whose business applications use only U.S. English?
The biggest annoyance is running queries on IBM tables and getting
unreadable results, then having to set the jobd to CCSID 37 to make
them readable.
- Dan Bale
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