National language codes for application development

Language codes are held as one character for NATLANG and NATLANGINUSE options, and three characters for LANGUAGECODE and LANGINUSE options in API commands.

Table 1. CICS language suffixes
Suffix IBM® Code Language name
C CHS Simplified Chinese
E ENU US English
K JPN Japanese

There are other IBM codes not supported by CICS®.

Table 2. Other IBM language codes
IBM Code Language name
AFR Afrikaans
ARA Arabic
BEL Byelorussian
BGR Bulgarian
CAT Catalan
CHT Traditional Chinese
CSY Czech
DAN Danish
DES Swiss German
DEU German
ELL Greek
ENA Australian English
ENG UK English
ENP English Upper Case
ESP Spanish
FIN Finnish
FRA French
FRB Belgian French
FRC Canadian French
FRS Swiss French
GAE Irish Gaelic
HEB Hebrew
HRV Croatian
HUN Hungarian
ISL Icelandic
ITA Italian
ITS Swiss Italian
KOR Korean
MKD Macedonian
NLB Belgian Dutch - Flemish
NLD Dutch
NON Norwegian - Nynorsk
NOR Norwegian
PLK Polish
PTB Brazilian Portuguese
PTG Portuguese
RMS Rhaeto-Romanic
ROM Romanian
RUS Russian
SHC Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic)
SHL Serbo-Croatian (Latin)
SKY Slovakian
SLO Slovenian
SRL Serbian (Latin)
SRB Serbian (Cyrillic)
SQI Albanian
SVE Swedish
THA Thai
TRK Turkish
UKR Ukrainian
URD Urdu