Code page

At host side, you can set the code page by specifying TOPOLOGY(CODEPAGE()) in the server and batch initialization statements. The input translator and the fault tolerant agent (FTA) use the specified value to convert received data, from UTF-8 format to EBCIDIC format and conversely.

At distributed side, to verify the active code page you can use operating system specific commands, for example the chcp command for Windows and locale for UNIX. Moreover:
  • Verify that the TWS_TISDIR environment variable is set to the name of the IBM Workload Scheduler home directory.
  • To handle jobs containing some national characters on a Windows workstation, add the chcp code_page command to the TWS_home\jobmanrc file, where code_page is the code page including those national characters.