LANGFILE parameter

Summary

Default value

Null

Parameter type

File

Where set

During file creation only

Related products

All

Introduced

Model 204 V6.1 or earlier

Description

Use the LANGFILE parameter to specify the language for file processing operations such as ordering of data and processing LIKE and LANGLIKE patterns, character storage, and uppercase or lowercase translation. The LANGFILE parameter determines the character set in a file.

The value of LANGFILE can be a counted character string of one to eight characters or a null string. Its value must match the name of one of the character sets defined in the table below. Null, the default value, specifies U.S. English.

Valid character sets

Written language	Model 204 parameter value
Cyrillic	CYRILLIC
French Canadian	FRENCHC
Japanese	JAPAN
Turkish	TURKISH
US English	US (the default)

You cannot specify a LANGFILE parameter setting other than US for sorted files (FILEORG X'01' setting).

After you set the LANGUSER parameter for your terminal and printer support, you must choose the correct LANGFILE parameter option to support applications that meet your language requirements.

You can set LANGFILE for files created by Version 2.2 or later. However, if it is set to a non-null value, the file cannot be opened by a version prior to Version 3.2.

For more information about language-specific processing, see the Model 204 System Manager's Guide and the Rocket Model 204 Language Support Summary.