Specifying that IFCID output should be in Unicode

You can start a performance, accounting, statistics, auditing, or monitoring trace by specifying the appropriate instrumentation facility component identifier (IFCID) in the START TRACE command. Many of these IFCIDs can write UTF-8 fields in the trace output.

Procedure

To specify that IFCID output should be in Unicode:

Set the UIFCIDS subsystem parameter to YES.

This parameter is called UIFCIDS in DSN6SYSP. It is also Option 11 (Unicode IFCIDS) on installation panel DSNTIPN. The default value is NO.

Results

Only a subset of the IFCID character fields are encoded in Unicode UTF-8. Those fields are identified in the IFCID record definition by a %U in the comment area to the right of the field declaration in the DSNDQWxx copy files.

If the UIFCIDS subsystem parameter is set to NO, the fields that are identified with %U are displayed in EBCDIC.