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-20286   DB2 CONVERTED STRING token-type tokenFROM from-ccsid TO to-ccsid, AND RESULTED IN SUBSTITUTION CHARACTERS

Explanation

A conversion error occurred during the conversion of a string for token-type token to a different coded character set. One or more substitution characters have been placed in the string during the conversion process.

token-type
The type of token.
token
The token that was converted.
from-ccsid
The coded character set of the string to be converted.
to-ccsid
The coded character set to which the string must be converted.

System action

The statement cannot be processed.

Programmer response

Ensure that the data that is provided to DB2® can be converted from from-ccsid to to-ccsid without data loss.

If the -20286 code was issued during the conversion of security labels, use only security labels that characters that are not substituted during conversion from one CCSID to another. For example, the following national characters might be substituted:
  • @ (X'7C')
  • # (X'7B')
  • $ (X'5B')

SQLSTATE

428GB

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