Feature codes for language version

Use this table to locate the appropriate IBM® i feature code for your primary or secondary language.

Note: When you install the operating system, the system prompts for the primary language in the form 29xx. When you install the secondary language, you select a feature code, in the form 29xx, from a list of national language feature code identifiers.

For example, if you ordered French for your primary language and Arabic as your secondary language, you would specify 2928 as your primary language when installing the operating system and select 2954 from the list of feature codes when you install the secondary language.

Table 1. Feature codes for language version
Group 1 languages (5827) Group 2 languages (5828) Group 3 languages (5829)
  • 2924 English
  • 2963 Belgian Dutch MNCS
  • 2909 Belgian English
  • 2966 Belgian French MNCS
  • 2980 Brazilian Portuguese
  • 2981 Canadian French MNCS
  • 2926 Danish
  • 2923 Dutch Netherlands
  • 2925 Finnish
  • 2928 French
  • 2940 French MNCS
  • 2929 German
  • 2939 German MNCS
  • 2958 Icelandic
  • 2932 Italian
  • 2942 Italian MNCS
  • 2933 Norwegian
  • 2922 Portuguese
  • 2996 Portuguese MNCS
  • 2931 Spanish
  • 2937 Swedish
  • 2924 English
  • 2995 Albanian
  • 2954 Arabic
  • 2974 Bulgarian
  • 2912 Croatian
  • 2975 Czech
  • 2902 Estonian
  • 2998 Farsi
  • 2957 Greek
  • 2961 Hebrew
  • 2976 Hungarian
  • 2904 Latvian
  • 2903 Lithuanian
  • 2913 Macedonian
  • 2978 Polish
  • 2992 Romanian
  • 2979 Russian
  • 2914 Serbian
  • 2994 Slovakian
  • 2911 Slovenian
  • 2956 Turkish
  • 2924 English
  • 2938 English DBCS Uppercase
  • 2984 English DBCS Uppercase and Lowercase
  • 2930 Japanese Universal
  • 2962 Japanese Katakana
  • 2986 Korean
  • 2906 Laotian
  • 2989 Simplified Chinese
  • 2987 Traditional Chinese
  • 2972 Thai
  • 2905 Vietnamese