title: JDBC URL DB2 Encoding characters
body: <p>Is there a way to set URL encoding to UTF-8 in JDBC for DB2?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>jdbc:db2://../characterEncoding=UTF-8;</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I know for MySQL that works but for DB2 it doesn't.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is that I try to send a character (E28093 in ASCII table) but in DB2 this character is converted into an arrow character and this is not correct.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to send the right character Or the problem is the DB2 configuration?</p>
  
  <p>The DB2 is the 9.4 version and running in z/OS.</p>
  
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  <p>SOLVED</p>
  
  <p>I recreated my table and added </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>CCSID Unicode</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>into my table space.
  And I created the column with the right subtype.
  Link for doc: 
  <a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0/char/src/tpc/db2z_createunicodetable.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0/char/src/tpc/db2z_createunicodetable.html</a></p>