Re: CPYTOIMPF - how to set CCSID

On Friday 14 November 2003 22:24, Stone, Joel wrote:
> When I run CPYTOIMPF and output to a stream file, the data is all
> garbled. I think that the problem is the CCSID value.  This may also be
> called the "code page".
>
> It is creating the file with a code page = 37.  A file that is OK
> (readable characters in Wordpad) has a code page of 437.

Code page & CCSID are similar, but CCSID refers to files on the iSeries 
and code page to stream or PC files. In later versions of OS/400 there is 
a STMFCODPAG parm to CPYTOIMPF which can be set as required. Prior to 
that there are a few tricks you can use. The one I find the easiest is to 
use a QShell command, touch, to create a 'placeholder' file of the right 
code page, which CPYTOIMPF (or CPYTOSTMF) replaces. In CL you could do 
this with
QSH CMD('touch -C 437 /path/to/new/filename.csv')
before issuing your CPYTOIMPF. The CPY & MOV CL commands also have a code 
page option that you can use afterwards, but I think touch is more 
efficient - I'm sure others will correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Regards, Martin
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