Multibyte language support on IBM DB2
If you support multibyte languages, you must verify database property settings.
If you support multibyte languages, the IBM DB2 database must originally be created as UTF-8. If the database was not originally created as UTF-8, it cannot be changed afterwards.
The string_units database parameter must be set to CODEUNITS32. This parameter specifies the default string units that are used when defining character data types and graphic data types in Unicode databases.