The ivcheckcp Utility
- Last Updated: May 12, 2026
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- OpenAccess SDK
- Version 9.0
- Documentation
The ivcheckcp utility, located in the installdir/tools, checks the codepage of your system and displays the locale, code page, iananame and IANAAppCodePage. The IANAAppCodePage number is the transliteration configuration parameter for the DataDirect Driver Manager on UNIX.
The syntax of this command is
ivcheckcp <locale>
Example 1 (on AIX)
$ ./ivcheckcp en_US.ISO8859-1
locale codepage iananame IANAAppCodePage
en_US.ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 ISO-8859-1 4
Example 2 (on AIX)
$ ./ivcheckcp 'locale -a'
locale codepage iananame IANAAppCodePage
C ISO8859-1 ISO-8859-1 4
POSIX ISO8859-1 ISO-8859-1 4
en_US ISO8859-1 ISO-8859-1 4
en_US.8859-15 ISO8859-15 ISO-8859-15 111
en_US.ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 ISO-8859-1 4