CCSID reference information

Coded character set identifier (CCSID) is a 16-bit number that includes a specific set of encoding scheme identifiers, character set identifiers, code page identifiers, and other information that uniquely identifies the coded graphic-character representation.

Character Data Representation Architecture (CDRA) has the concept of a growing CCSID. This CCSID is one where the code page is not full and new characters are added over time as needed. For more information about this concept, see the CDRA documentation. To indicate a growing CCSID, CDRA uses a value of 65535 in the character set part of a CCSID. On IBM® i, a growing CCSID is indicated by a value of 32000 instead.