Re: ACS - IFS Tooling, no automatic conversion?

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wondered about that, then I stopped wondering and started using jEdit
with its SFTP and code page support to edit the IFS.



On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:39 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I have a text file, CCSID 37 in the IFS.
>
> When I "download and open" it using the ACS IFS tooling, I see garbage.
> Apparently the text is still in EBCDIC.
>
> iNav does the same, however in iNav you can configure it to automatically
> convert files with a given extension.\
>
> Set up file text conversion Set up file text conversion
>
> To set file text conversion, follow these steps:
>
>    1. In the *System i Navigator* window, expand the system you want to
>    use.
>    2. Expand *File Systems*.
>    3. Right-click *Integrated File System* and select *Properties*.
>    4. Enter the file extension that you want to convert automatically in
>    the *File extensions for automatic text file conversion* text box and
>    click *Add*.
>    5. Repeat step 4 for all file extensions that you want to convert
>    automatically.
>    6. Click *OK*.
>
> I would have thought ACS would handle it by default, failing that it could
> be configured.  But I can't seem to find a comparable setting in ACS?
>
> Am I missing something?  Is this a bug?  Or is it RFE time?
>
> Charles
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