Unicode Support

The DB2 Wire Protocol driver supports Unicode data types if the database was created with a multi-byte character set.

The DB2 Wire Protocol driver maps the DB2 data types to Unicode data types as shown in the following table:

DB2 Data Type	Mapped to. . .
Dbclob 1	SQL_WLONGVARCHAR
Graphic	SQL_WCHAR
Long Vargraphic	SQL_WLONGVARCHAR
Vargraphic	SQL_WVARCHAR

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Supported on DB2 V8.x and higher for Linux/UNIX/Windows; DB2 for z/OS; and DB2 V5R2 and higher for iSeries.