How to convert Russian characters to English

[ray.wurlod]

You need to load the character maps in the Administrator client. From the General tab there is an NLS button that opens the dialog for loading maps and locales.

Be aware, however, that there is no way to convert Russian characters to English.

What NLS does is to change the encoding of the Cyrillic characters (there are 36 of them, ignoring case) from the KOI8-R encoding - which presumably is how you currently have them encoded in your database - to a UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. This encoding is specific to DataStage, UniVerse and UniData; it is sometimes called UV-UTF8.

Again, it is not possible to perform translation using NLS.