Specifies a character set name that is used as the default, identifier, and literal character sets for the session of the current connection. The value of runtime-options must be one of the character sets listed in the Supported_Characters_Sets HELP topic . You can supply a parameter marker from dynamic SQL, a host language variable from a precompiled SQL program, a parameter from an SQL module language module, or a string literal. The argument that you supply must be a character string that contains a connect expression that is interpreted at run time.