MEME gate, VALIDATE_LANGUAGE_CODE function
The VALIDATE_LANGUAGE_CODE function of the MEME gate is used to determine whether a specific three-letter IBM® standard national language code is valid. If it is valid, this function returns the equivalent one-character CICS® language suffix.
Input Parameters
- LANGUAGE_CODE
- The three-character national language code to be validated. See Languages and their codes for the IBM standard three-character codes, and their corresponding one-character CICS language suffixes.
Output Parameters
- REASON
- The following values are returned when RESPONSE is DISASTER:
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- RESPONSE
- Indicates whether the domain call was successful. See RESPONSE parameter on domain interfaces. for more information.
- LANGUAGE_SUFFIX
- Optional Parameter
Languages and their codes
| NATLANG code | Globalization code | Language |
|---|---|---|
| A | ENG | Alternative English |
| Q | ARA | Arabic |
| 1 | BEL | Byelorussian |
| L | BGR | Bulgarian |
| B | PTB | Brazilian Portuguese |
| T DBCS | CHT | Traditional Chinese |
| C DBCS | CHS | Simplified Chinese |
| 2 | CSY | Czech |
| D | DAN | Danish |
| G | DEU | German |
| O | ELL | Greek |
| S | ESP | Spanish |
| W | FIN | Finnish |
| F | FRA | French |
| X | HEB | Hebrew |
| 3 | HRV | Croatian |
| 4 | HUN | Hungarian |
| J | ISL | Icelandic |
| I | ITA | Italian |
| H DBCS | KOR | Korean |
| M | MKD | Macedonian |
| 9 | NLD | Dutch |
| N | NOR | Norwegian |
| 5 | PLK | Polish |
| P | PTG | Portuguese |
| 6 | ROM | Romanian |
| R | RUS | Russian |
| Y | SHC | Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) |
| 7 | SHL | Serbo-Croatian (Latin) |
| V | SVE | Swedish |
| Z | THA | Thai |
| 8 | TRK | Turkish |
| U | UKR | Ukrainian |
Notes:
- DBCS denotes Double-Byte Character Set languages.
- Code letter A means alternative English to distinguish edited English message tables from the default US English message tables supplied by CICS. The default US English tables are designated by the language code letter E.
- The NATLANG code for the selected language is used as the suffix of message data sets.