In todays business world there is a growing need to exchange data with other users that might be working in different languages and environments. This might involve using Unicode to accept and display Russian and Japanese data from a 5250 RPG application, or general data that needs to be received or sent in batch to an AIX application. This session covers how to use builtin facilities of i5/ OS to work with other systems using encodings such as ASCII, EBCDIC, and Unicode. Samples are provided in RPG, COBOL, C and CL.

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
1. Convert data using the iconv API.
2. Support Unicode in a 5250 environment.
3. Support Unicode in a DB2 environment.