Considerations with other products and tools

Note: Any software tool that scans source code or compiler listings is affected by the introduction of the locale functionality. Tools that read or generate source code now need to recognize the #pragma filetag directive. Tools that read listings need to recognize the coded character set in the title header.
Since the following tools scan source code, they may be affected:
  • The Debug Tool does not support code written in any coded character set other than IBM®-1047.
  • Translators such as CICS® and DB2® read source files and generate new source files. If they do not, then follow these steps:
    1. Convert the source file to coded character set IBM-1047 using the iconv utility.
    2. Remove the #pragma filetag directive from the source file, or change it to ??=pragma filetag("IBM-1047"). Run the source that is in the IBM-1047 coded character set through the appropriate translator, if needed.
Parent topic: Coded character set considerations with locale functions