JR45592 The resulting string from the ICONV function with the S option can lead to unmappable character warnings The environment variable DSE_SOUNDEX_BEHAVIOR was added to alter the behavior of the S code option to ICONV and the SOUNDEX functions. When set to 1, the resulting string will be empty if the first character is not A - Z or a - z. When unset or not 1, there is no change in the original behavior. (The resulting string has the possibility of being unmappable.) The environment variable can be set for all of DataStage by adding it to $DSHOME/dsenv, on a project basis through the Administrator, or just for a particular job with the addition of a Before-job subroutine using ExecTCL to run ENV SET DSE_SOUNDEX_BEHAVIOR=1.