Re: CRTPF and job CCSID

Bruce,

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Bruce Vining wrote:

Brad,

CRTPF with no DDS and FILETYPE(*DATA) will always create a file with CCSID(65535). This can be found in the help text behind the CCSID keyword.

Not using DDS is essentially an indication the the file will be program described. And as the file is program described it may very well contain data in formats such as packed and binary. If this were true then the last thing you would want is for the system to start doing CCSID conversions for the file treating, for instance, packed decimal data as character.

Bruce Vining

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CRTPF and job CCSID






I was under the impression that when you issue a CRTPF (no
DDS, just specifying record length) that the CCSID of the
file would be the job CCSID.

I have a case where a user has job ccsid and default ccsid
f 935 (trad chinese).  When they issue CRTPF it creates the
PF with a ccsid of 65535.

Any ideas?  I have to be missing something here.  :)

Brad