The PowerCenter repository code page is the code page of the data in the repository. The PowerCenter Repository Service uses the PowerCenter repository code page to save metadata in and retrieve metadata from the PowerCenter repository database. Choose the PowerCenter repository code page when you create or upgrade a PowerCenter repository. When the PowerCenter repository database code page is UTF-8, you can create a PowerCenter repository using UTF-8 as its code page.
The PowerCenter repository code page must be:
Compatible with the domain configuration database code page
A superset of the the Administrator tool code page
A superset of the PowerCenter Client code page
A superset of the code page for the PowerCenter Integration Service process
A superset of the machine hosting
pmrep
or a superset of the code page specified in the INFA_CODEPAGENAME environment variable
A global PowerCenter repository code page must be a subset of the local PowerCenter repository code page if you want to create shortcuts in the local PowerCenter repository that reference an object in a global PowerCenter repository.
If you copy objects from one PowerCenter repository to another PowerCenter repository, the code page for the target PowerCenter repository must be a superset of the code page for the source PowerCenter repository.