Simplified Chinese

Details of CCSIDs and CCSID conversion for Simplified Chinese.

Table 1. Native CCSIDs for Simplified Chinese on supported platforms
Platform Native CCSIDs
[z/OS]z/OS® 935, 1388
[IBM i]IBM® i 935, 1388
[AIX]AIX® 1383, 1386
[Windows]Windows 1381, 1386(see Note 2)
[Linux]Linux® 1383
Note:
  1. [Windows]Windows uses code page 936 but this is best represented by the CCSID of 1386. However, not all platforms of IBM MQ support this CCSID.

    On IBM MQ for Windows CCSID 1381 is used to represent code page 936, but a change to file ../conv/table/ccsid.tbl can be made which changes the CCSID used to 1386.

  2. IBM MQ supports the Chinese GB18030 standard.
    [Windows][z/OS][Linux]On z/OS, Windows and Linux, conversion support is provided between Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) and CCSID 1388 (EBCDIC with GB18030 extensions), Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) and CCSID 5488 (GB18030), and between CCSID 1388 and CCSID 5488.
    [UNIX, Linux, Windows, IBM i]Note: On Multiplatforms, the CCSID must be set to 5488 in order to use GB18030 characters in the description fields of objects such as queues and topics. However, it is not possible to set the CCSID on a queue manager created with the IBM MQ Explorer or the IBM MQ Console. Instead, you must either create the queue manager using the CLI with a CCSID of 5488 or use the CLI command line to change the CCSID after you create the queue manager.

    [IBM i]On IBM i, support is provided by the operating system for conversion between Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) and CCSID 1388 (EBCDIC with GB18030 extensions).

    [z/OS]On z/OS, in order for GB18030 characters to be used in the description fields of objects such as queues and topics, the queue manager must be configured to run with a QMCCSID value of 1388.

    [z/OS][MQ 9.4.2 Feb 2025]On z/OS, from IBM MQ 9.4.2, conversion support is provided between GB18030-2022 level 1 and level 2 characters (CCSID 1388) and Unicode (UTF-8, CCSID 1208, and UTF-16, CCSID 1200).

All platforms support conversion between their native CCSIDs and the native CCSIDs of other platforms, with the following exceptions.

[z/OS]

z/OS

Code page:
935
Does not convert to code page 1383
1388
Does not convert to code page 1383