CCSIDs of Data

All character, graphic, and UCS-2 data has a Coded Character Set ID (CCSID) that determines the meaning of the data. For example, the data x’20’ means “blank” in the UTF-8 CCSID 1208 while the data x’40’ means “blank” in the EBCDIC CCSID 37 and the value x’0020’ means “blank” in the UCS-2 CCSID 13488.

Data can be converted from one CCSID to another. For example, if you assign a variable having EBCDIC data with CCSID 37 to a variable having UCS-2 CCSID 13488, the EBCDIC data must be converted to CCSID 13488. See CCSID definition keyword for detailed information on the valid CCSIDs for each type.

For more information about CCSIDs, refer to the globalization topic in the IBM i documentation.