RE: CPYTOIMPF and Codepage

Don't give up.  Try pre-creating the IFS file using notepad.  Just start up
notepad and do a SAVE-AS to the IFS.  Then use that as your output from
CPYTOIMPF.  Painless & it works.

Alex


> ARGH!  I GIVE UP!
>
> I'm just trying to do a simple task: copy a file to a comma delimited file
> on my IFS which I can edit using notepad.
>
> CPYTOIMPF doesn't translate the file.  It's on the IFS as EBCDIC with
> codepage 37.  When I try to edit it, and Notepad brings the file up in
> EBCDIC (lots of @ signs, unreadable text).
>
> I thought the from and to codepages of CPY looked promising.  I try CPY,
> specifying to and from codepages, and lo and behold, the file shows up as
> codepage 1252, but still in EBCDIC.  Same results with notepad.
>
> I'm at wit's end here.  All I want to do is to copy a database file to a
> comma-delimited format, edit it with an ASCII text editor, and
> then copy it
> back into the original database file.
>
>