Collecting Language and CCSID Settings

To better assist in diagnosing Language and Coded Character Set Identifier (CCSID) related issues we need to gather information about your current settings. Use the steps that follow to capture four different types of settings information.

System i Settings

Collect the system values displayed by issuing the following commands:

DSPSYSVAL QCCSID
DSPSYSVAL QLANGID
DSPSYSVAL QCNTRYID
DSPSYSVAL QLOCALE 

Issue the following command to display the SEQUEL translation data area:

DSPDTAARA SEQUEL/SQTRN

Once the Display Data Area opens, create a print screen (use Alt-Print Screen to copy the screen and then paste into a Word document with Ctrl-V).

Issue the following command to display the ESEND translation data area:

DSPDTAARA ESEND/EMTRN

Once the Display Data Area opens, use the same method described above to create a print screen.

 
Host Job Settings

To capture information for the interactive, batch or server jobs involved in a process issue the following command:

WRKJOB JOB(JOBNUMBER/USER/JOBNAME)

	Select option 2 from the Work with Job menu to open the Display Job Definition Attributes screen shown at left. Page down to the second page and capture the Language ID and Country or region ID values.
Page down to the third page and capture the Coded character set ID.

Local PC Settings

Open IBM i Access for Windows Properties\Language tab.

Create a print screen of this panel.

5250 Emulator (System i Access) Settings

From the emulator window menu, select the option Communication\Configure... like so:

Create a print screen of the Configure panel.