To install a CCSID translation table for deployed applications

Use these instructions when installing a translation table for a deployed application. For details on installing a translation table in a development environment, see To install a CCSID translation table.

1. In a Web browser, download the IBM CCSID translation tables file from cdctables.zip and extract it to a location within the user application.
   Tip: The IBM-37, IBM-437, and 002501B5 tables are pre-installed in the \etc\ccsid (Windows) or $COBDIR/etc/ccsid (UNIX) sub-directory of the product installation directory; if you require any of these tables, you can copy them from the stated location to your user application, without the need to download the .zip file.
2. Set the COBCCSIDDIR environment variable to the location of this directory.

   This directory will serve as the translation table base directory.

3. Use the tabindex.txt file (located in the intro.zip file) to identify the package number and filename for each CCSID translation table you need to install.
4. Within the translation table base directory, create a sub-directory for each table you want to install, using the name of the CCSID translation table filename, specified in the tabindex.txt file, as the directory name.
5. For each CCSID that you want to install, open its corresponding Packagen.zip file (as specified in tabindex.txt) and extract the files from the appropriate CCSID .zip file to the corresponding directory you created in the previous step.
6. Set the MFCODESET environment variable to the required code set for translation; see The code set translation environment variable for details.