Specifying language and code page information for the WUI

The Web User Interface requires an INITPARM system initialization parameter to specify the server language and the client code page. Code EYU9VKEC to represent the language of the Web User Interface server and EYU9VWAN to represent the code page of the client on the INITPARM parameter.

You can select the server language and the client code page from Table 1 and specify them on the INITPARM parameter: 
INITPARM=(EYU9VKEC='xxx',EYU9VWAN='yyyy')
xxx is the language identifier of the Web User Interface server and yyyy is the code page identifier of the client.
Table 1. Language and code page identifiers for INITPARM
Language Language identifier (EYU9VKEC) Client code page Default client code page identifier (EYU9VWAN)
US English ENU ISO-8859-1 (819) ENU1
Japanese JPN Shift-JIS (943) JPN1
Simplified Chinese CHS GB2312 (1381) CHS1
Simplified Chinese CHS GB18030 (05488) CHS2
For example, if your chosen language is English, code the INITPARM parameter: 
INITPARM=(EYU9VKEC='ENU',EYU9VWAN='ENU1')
  1. You can override the code page identifier for individual user requests by placing it in the web address used to access the Web User Interface: 
    http://hostname:port/CICSPlexSM/codepage
    Example: MVSXX.COMPANY.COM:05126/CICSPlexSM/JPN1
  2. If the INITPARM system initialization parameter is not specified or if a value is not specified for EYU9VKEC or EYU9VWAN, the default values are ENU for the language and ENU1 for the code page. However, operator messages are issued every time default values are used.
  3. A simplified Chinese WUI server can support client Web browsers using either GB2312 (CHS1) or GB18030 (CHS2). For GB2312 clients, the server uses the EBCDIC code page, 935. For GB18030 clients, the server assumes a second EBCDIC code page, 1388, which is a superset of code page 935.

    View sets and menus edited using a GB2312 client Web browser are stored in 935 and can be used in either client code page. However, if a view set or menu is edited using a GB18030 client and characters not available in 935 are used, the resulting views set or menu are not displayed correctly on GB2312 clients.

  4. Some Web browsers do not support all the available client code pages. For example, many older Web browsers do not support GB18030.