DOCCODEPAGE

The DOCCODEPAGE system initialization parameter specifies the default host code page that the document handler domain uses.

The standard CICS form of a host code page name consists of the code page number (or more generally CCSID) written by using 3 to 5 decimal digits as necessary, then padded with trailing spaces to 8 characters. For code page 37, which is fewer than 3 digits, the standard form is 037. CICS® accepts any decimal number of up to 8 digits (padded with trailing spaces) in the range 1 to 65535 as a code page name, even if it is not in the standard form.

The DOCCODEPAGE system initialization parameter specifies an EBCDIC-based code page if any symbol processing is required, as the delimiters used for symbol and symbol list processing are assumed to be in Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) encoding.

Defining DOCCODEPAGE

You can define the DOCCODEPAGE system initialization parameter in the following ways:

In the PARM parameter of the EXEC PGM=DFHSIP statement.
In the SYSIN data set of the CICS startup job stream.
Through the system console.
In the DFHSIT macro.

Values for DOCCODEPAGE

DOCCODEPAGE={037|codepage}

Valid values for the DOCCODEPAGE system initialization parameter are as follows:

037: 037 is the default value for DOCCODEPAGE.
codepage: The codepage is a field of up to 8 characters. If the codepage value is not specified, the default value of the DOCCODEPAGE system initialization parameter is set to 037.