The short answer is yes, that you should nowadays implement in Unicode if possible. It does make the internationalization process a fair amount simpler.
Have you looked at any of the DB2 and z/OS-related internationalization documentation yet? (That's the word to look for: "internationalization.") - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

