Defining a new user-defined CCSID and then creating a user-defined conversion table using this new CCSID

This section discusses the steps necessary to create a user-defined CCSID. If you are considering creating a user-defined CCSID, contact IBM support to see if IBM already has a CCSID you can use, or if IBM can support the conversion you need.

Note: A system IPL is required to activate the newly defined CCSID.

The following steps are required to create a user-defined CCSID and then create a user-defined conversion table using this new CCSID. You will notice the steps 2 through 7 are the same as when you define a user-defined mapping in Creating a user-defined conversion table between two existing CCSIDs.

This section will explain the steps needed for the first step only. See Creating a user-defined conversion table between two existing CCSIDs for steps 2 through 7.

Step 1: Update the z/OS Unicode Services knowledge base
Once you have completed step 1, the system will support the use of the user-defined CCSID and the new table suffix in the following steps.
Steps two through seven