National Language Support

When you install InfoSphere® DataStage® With National Language Support (NLS) mode enabled, you can use InfoSphere DataStage in various languages and countries.

With NLS enabled, you can do the following:

• Use InfoSphere DataStage in various languages. This includes languages that use multi-byte characters, such as Japanese.
• Read and write data in multi-byte character sets and process the data within InfoSphere DataStage. This is regardless of the language of InfoSphere DataStage itself. For example, you can process Japanese data in an English version of InfoSphere DataStage, or process English data in a Japanese version of InfoSphere DataStage.
• Use locales to change things like collating sequence, monetary conventions, date/time format from outside a job design.

You must enable NLS when you install InfoSphere DataStage. If you choose to install a non-English language version of InfoSphere DataStage, NLS is enabled automatically. If you choose to install an English version of InfoSphere DataStage, you specify separately whether NLS is enabled or not.