Codepage

By default the z/OS® DLA outputs XML files in EBCDIC codepage 1047. If your site does not use 1047, the IZDC* members in SIZDSAMP must be updated to define the appropriate codepage. For example, many customers in Europe and the Middle East must define SET CODEPAGE 1148 in the z/OS DLA configuration members.

Failure to set the correct codepage can lead to incorrect EBCDIC to ASCII text translation, when the XML files are download to distributed platforms for loading into CCMDB, IBM Z Resource Discovery Data Service DB, etc. For example, the z/OS DLA files contain XML comments in <!--.... --> format and some attributes contain XML CDATA in <![CDATA[ ]]> format. The !, [ and ] characters are different in codepage 1047 and 1148. In turn the downloaded files would not be valid XML if the !, [ and ] were not translated correctly.