The character set used in communication with the primary data server.
"" (empty string)
Any valid character set supported by the Java VM on the Mirror Replication Agent host machine.
When the Mirror Replication Agent instance is created, the pds_charset parameter is set to its default value "" (empty string).
When you initialize the Mirror Replication Agent instance, the value of the pds_charset parameter is automatically set to match the primary Adaptive Server default character set, which is identified by the Adaptive Server default character set id configuration parameter.
Sybase recommends that you:
Configure the primary and standby data servers and the Replication Server to all use the same character set
Do not change the value of the pds_charset parameter configured during Mirror Replication Agent initialization.
The value of the pds_charset parameter must match (or be compatible with) the primary Adaptive Server default character set, which is identified by the Adaptive Server default character set id configuration parameter.
If you specify a valid character set for the value of the pds_charset parameter, the Mirror Replication Agent instance reads replicated transaction data from the mirror log devices in that character set.
If you do not specify a valid character set name for the value of the pds_charset parameter (including the default pds_charset value ""), the Mirror Replication Agent instance reads replicated transaction data from the mirror log devices using the system default character set, specified by the Java VM file.encoding system property on the Mirror Replication Agent host machine.
