Additional Reading Reading Request Broker Logs Associated with Unicode Problems If you are debugging a unicode connection, you can expect to see this in the request broker log - note the serveropts field:... 14:08:11 using mapping: db2:*:*:*:*:*:* 14:08:11 using [generic_db2] ServerProgram=db2_mv 14:08:11 connect params: domain=DB2 db=sample serveropts=W readonly=0 ... The Unicode parameters that are supplied to the server options cannot be displayed properly in the broker log so the above will be seen; this is normal behaviour.