The concept of so-called “Coded Character Sets” (CCS) is supported for openFT partners as of V10. A CCS defines a character set and the coding of these characters in the file. A CCS is assigned a name of up to 8 characters in length via which the CCS can be addressed.
When transferring text files, users can specify a separate CCS for file encoding in the local and remote systems.
Frequently used Coded Character Sets are:
ISO88591 | Character set in accordance with the definition contained in ISO standard 8859-1, ASCII-oriented coding in accordance with ISO standard 8859-1. |
EDF041 | Character set in accordance with the definition contained in ISO standard 8859-1, EBCDIC-oriented coding in accordance with Fujitsu definition DF04-1. |
IBM1047 | Character set as defined in ISO 8859-1. IBM1047 is an EBCDIC-based encoding compliant with the IBM definition IBM1047 and used as default in z/OS systems. |
UTF8 | The character set is Unicode, the UTF-8 multi-byte coding defined in the Unicode standard is used. |
UTF16 | The character set is Unicode, the UTF16 16-bit coding defined in the Unicode standard is used. |
CP1252 | The character set is a superset, defined by Microsoft, of the character set defined in ISO standard 8859-1. The ASCII-oriented coding is identical to the ISO8859-1 for the characters which are shared with ISO8859-1. |
Making a CCS available
In BS2000 systems, the CCSs are defined and made available via XHCS. The default CCS for the system (HOSTCODE) is defined by the BS2000 system administrator. The administrator can also assign a default user character set different to HOSTCODE to a user ID.
On the other openFT platforms as of V10, the commonly used CCSs are supplied with openFT. The FT administrator defines the default character set via the operating parameters.