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Chapter 1 Introduction : Strings and Character Encodings

Strings and Character Encodings
Typically, C clients manipulate strings using the character encoding of the machine on which they are running.
The EMS C client library itself does not do any encoding or decoding of characters. When sending a message, an EMS C client application can use tibemsMsg_SetEncoding to put information into the message describing the encoding used. When receiving a message in an EMS C client application, the encoding can be retrieved using tibemsMsg_GetEncoding and then a third party library can be used to do the actual decoding.
Character Limits for Connection URLs
Connection URLs are limited to a length of 1000 characters. Note that this limit pertains to the C client library, as well as the administration tool and the factories.conf configuration file.
IBM z/OS and IBM i (i5)—COBOL and C
In EBCDIC environments, the EMS client library automatically converts message strings. To client programs, all strings appear in the host code page. On the network, all strings appear in the network host page. For details, see tibems_SetCodePages() on page 569.
All the COBOL calls documented in this reference refer to COBOL on the z/OS and IBM i platforms.

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