document-codepage

This single-valued attribute is the name of the code page used to create the document. Infoprint Server uses this name as the source when it uses the z/OS UNIX iconv utility to convert data from one code page to another.

Allowed values

You can enter the name of an IBM-supplied or custom code page that the iconv utility supports.

Default value

1. The default code page that the administrator has defined for the printer.
2. The code page for the current locale of z/OS UNIX System Services. This is usually an EBCDIC code page.

Usage guidelines

• For the names of IBM-supplied code page names, see z/OS XL C/C++ Programming Guide.

  If you specify a custom code page, ask your administrator to make sure conversion tables exist to convert between:

  • The custom code page and the code page specified in the Printer code page field in the printer definition for the printer in the Printer Inventory.
  • The code page for the z/OS® locale and the custom code page.

  For information about how to create conversion tables, see information about code set conversion utilities in z/OS XL C/C++ Programming Guide.

• To print an ASCII job, you must use an ASCII code page. If the printer is not defined to use an ASCII code page, you must specify one as the value of this attribute. ISO8859-1 is an example of an ASCII code page.
• Infoprint Server uses this attribute to translate documents before placing them on the Job Entry Subsystem (JES) spool. Because Infoprint Server does not translate data streams such as MO:DCA-P, PCL, or PostScript, it ignores this attribute when printing these data streams.