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  • Subject: asdbget: character set
  • From: Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 12:42:29 -0500
  • Organization: Best Distributing Co.

I had another thought which may or may not be correct.

The -m option specifies the format of the AS/400 data, right?  Or is it
the format that we want it converted to?

I've been assuming the former.  If so, can we use the DSPFFD field that
has the CCSID?  Should be easier than having to specify on the command
line (especially since some of my files seem to have a different
CCSID...)  On our AS/400 at V4R2, I have:

Field Level Information
               Data        Field  Buffer    Buffer        Field
Column
    Field      Type       Length  Length  Position        Usage
Heading

    WHCSID     PACKED       5  0       3       492        Both     CCSID

      Field text  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :  Coded Character set
Identifier


Next, I wonder how useful is the buffer lengh on a packed field?  We're
converting to integers which means the length of our data isn't going to
be the buffer length.  If it's a 'P' field, shouldn't we use the field
length instead?

Finally, (off topic a bit) any easy way to define an SQL field type
based on the buffer length or field length?  I have a lot of files with
a lot of fields, so it would be a nightmare to create all the tables
manually.  I tried dds2sql on the DDS of the file, but that was a
disaster.

Thanks.
Sean Porterfield

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