Preparing to configure national language support
To configure and use the national language support in your Rational®
ClearQuest® environment, you must perform the
following tasks: 
- Determine the configuration and usage model appropriate to your Rational ClearQuest environment. See Configuration considerations.
 - Determine the preferred Rational ClearQuest data code page for your environment.
 - Create database instances and configure them using the vendor database character set corresponding to your preferred data code page.
 - Set up new database sets, or upgrade your existing database sets to use the selected Rational ClearQuest data code page.
 - If you are moving data from an older version repository, verify that your data retains its integrity during the transfer.
 
Table 1 lists
the tasks an administrator must perform to configure a new Rational
ClearQuest environment
to use code pages correctly. 
| Administrator task | Documentation | 
|---|---|
| Determine the appropriate Rational ClearQuest data code page value for a schema repository. | Selecting the Rational ClearQuest data code page | 
| Set the vendor database character set for all vendor databases to a value that corresponds to the Rational ClearQuest data code page you determined is appropriate for your schema repository. | Supported vendor database character sets | 
| If you are running databases or importing data
from databases that run an earlier version of Rational
ClearQuest,
update your installation according to the instructions in the installation
documentation. Note: If you are creating a schema repository for new
data, you can skip this step. 
 | 
See the Installing and upgrading section of the help. | 
| As part of creating each new schema repository with the Maintenance Tool, set the associated Rational ClearQuest data code page. | Creating a schema repository |