Re: Unencrypt an FTP'd file

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vern,

> Or use the CPY command to make a copy and change the CCSID in the
> process. The second method can be automated, for sure. But maybe the
> first one can, as well. I've not investigated QShell commands that could
> change the CCSID - maybe "touch"  can do it.

If the assumption is that the CCSID on the file is wrong, you can use one
of the following commands to change it to a correct one.  It's important
to understand that these just change the CCSID attribute of the file, they
do not do any translation of the data from one CCSID to another.

>From the OS/400 command line:

 CHGATR OBJ('/path/to/myfile') ATR(*CCSID) VALUE(37)


>From QShell:

  setccsid 37 /path/to/myfile



If you do want to do translation of the data, for example if you know that
the data is ASCII and you want to translate it to EBCDIC:

>From the command line:

  CPY OBJ('/path/to/myfile') TOOBJ('/path/to/newfile') FROMCCSID(850)
        TOCCSID(37) DTAFMT(*TEXT)

>From QShell:

  iconv -f 850 -t 37 /path/to/myfile > /path/to/newfile
  setccsid 37 /path/to/newfile