Changing the locale of Database

I have a database (IDS v9.3) in default english locale. I would like support multilingual data and hence would liek to change the encoding of the DB to en_utf8. My understanding is that I can not simply change the encoding of the loaded database. I need to create an empty DB with desired encoding and then migrate the data from english DB to UTF-8 DB. Is my understanding correct ? I came to know from someone that in IDS v9.4, the encoding of the DB can be changed on the fly if the earlier data is all english data i.e. I might not require to to do above step if I migrate to 9.4 !!! Anybody having any information on the same ? -- Message posted via http://www.dbmonster.com

9.30 is now obsolete so you should move to 9.40 or 10. "I came to know from someone that in IDS v9.4, the encoding of the DB can be changed on the fly if the earlier data is all english data i.e. I might not require to to do above step if I migrate to 9.4 !!! " I'm not sure but I think someone may be referring to "code set conversion". http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/25122370.pdf