Using double-byte data

This section tells you where you can use double-byte data and discusses the limitations to its use.

Where you can use double-byte data

You can use double-byte data in the following ways:

• As data in files:
  • Data in database files.
  • Data entered in input-capable and data displayed in output-capable fields of display files.
  • Data printed in output-capable fields in printer files.
  • Data used as literals in display files and printer files.
• As the text of messages.
• As the text of object descriptions.
• As literals and constants, and as data to be processed by high-level language programs.

Double-byte data can be displayed only at DBCS display stations and printed only on DBCS printers. Double-byte data can be written onto diskette, tape, disk, and optical storage.

Where you cannot use double-byte data

You cannot use double-byte data in the following ways:

• As AS/400 object names.
• As command names or variable names in control language (CL) and other high-level languages.
• As displayed or printed output on alphanumeric work stations.