National Support

Property

Function

Internationalization Language

Specifies the national language that is available on the host targeted by this Configuration. This language to be used as the collating sequence for a national item

This property enables you to set your DASDL definition to specify a collating sequence (other than the default EBCDIC sequence) for the national attributes stored on your database. This ensures that all text comparisons and sort sequences use the same collating sequence as the DMSII database. It also applies to your generated classes and methods.

This property must be specified if any attributes of the Segment are defined as national items. A National Attribute in Agile Business Suite is a National String under the following conditions:

  • National Support = Single-byte

  • Internationalization Language not set to NONE or spaces

Collating Sequence not set to NONE or spaces.

The following rules apply to the value of this property:

  • If a segment contains some national items and the value of this property is empty then generate fails (with errors).

  • If a segment contains some national items and the value of this property is Ignore National then generate proceeds as normal (without errors).

  • If a segment does not contain any national items and the value of this property is empty or Ignore National then generate proceeds as normal (without errors).

This property is limited to a maximum length of 17 alphanumeric characters.

By default, this property is empty. It also has predefined value of Ignore National.

This property is specific Segments only.