CHRID (Character Identifier) keyword for display files

You can use this field-level keyword to specify that a named field be translated if the CHRID parameter value for the display file differs from the CHRID parameter value for the workstation.

This can be important when extended alphabetics (characters such as u with an umlaut or c with a cedilla) are to be displayed or typed in.

This keyword has no parameters.

If the CHRID keyword is not specified for a field and the CHRID value for the display file is not *JOBCCSID, data displayed in that field is displayed in the character set of the device used to type the data. How the data is displayed cannot be predicted and depends on how code points used in the original code page map to the code page used on the device.

The CHRID keyword is not valid on constant fields, numeric fields (fields with decimal positions specified in positions 36 through 37), message fields (M specified in position 38), hidden fields (H specified in position 38), or program-to-system fields (P in Position 38).

The CHRID keyword is ignored if the CHRID value for the display file is *JOBCCSID.

The CHRID keyword cannot be specified with the DUP (Duplication) keyword.

If you specify the CHRID keyword with the DFT keyword on a field, the initial (default) value of the field is not translated, but data entered into that field is translated.

Option indicators are not valid for this keyword, although option indicators can be used to condition the field for which it is specified.

Example

The following example shows how to specify the CHRID keyword.

|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A          R RECORD1
00020A            TITLE         40      1 20CHRID
     A

The field TITLE is a named field. With the CHRID keyword specified, character translation can occur on both output and input, depending on the conditions described in the Application Display Programming book Link to PDF .