How to handle the Chinese/Japanese in cobol/Mainframe

wooyoo · New User Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

hi all .
are there anyone have the experience using the east letters on ibm mainframe /cobol ?
i know the east letters such as chinese or japanese is cost two bytes in storage , but i have no idea how it exactly stored in memory or vsam file or db , i know there is a datatype named 'N' in cobol 85 can deal with this type of date , but in the older version ,how should i do ?how to store a east letter in to storage or display them from db or vsam?

any suggestion will do , if someone will offer a detail information or basic theory about storing east letters on mainframe , it will very helpful.

thanks in advance

kannapr · New User Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 1

Even am looking for the some answers on this.

Any experiences please pass it on.

Thanks,
Kannan.K

NaveNZ · New User Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 2

Look for the following
"DBCS"
SO/SI characters "0E" "OF"