Replacing the Unicode conversion table for CCSID 1388 with the conversion table

If you want to use the old version of the conversion table between CCSID 1388 and Unicode, you must manually override the default conversion tables.

Before you begin

If the code page conversion table file you want to override already exists in the conv subdirectory of the sqllib directory, back up that file in case you want to revert to the default table.

About this task

For conversion table replacement to be effective, the conversion table on the database server and all of its clients must be changed.

Procedure

To replace the Db2® default conversion table for converting between CCSID 1388 and Unicode, follow these steps:

  1. When replacing conversion tables on the client, stop all the applications that are using the database. If you have any CLP sessions running, issue the TERMINATE command for each session. When replacing conversion tables on the database server, stop all instances on all nodes by issuing the db2stop command
  2. Copy sqllib/conv/alt/1388ucs2.cnv to sqllib/conv/1388ucs2.cnv.
  3. Restart all applications.