RE: Moving bytes from a SBCS EBCDIC field to a DBCS Unicode field without translation

 >> I mean raw Unicode bytes being passed into the RPG module in a variable
that, while nominally a character field, is in fact used to pass in raw
bytes that already might at various times be almost any combination of
character and/or zoned data (but no packed or binary). 

I missed the first part of this thread so if I'm missing something here
please excuse me but ...

Why not simply define the input parm as character?  You are only going to
receive a pointer anyway, so the interpretation of the data is entirely up
to you.

If that "field" is a DS then you can do whatever you want.  Like so:

     d input           ds
     d   ucs2Field1               16000c   
     d   ucs2Field2               16000c   
     d   charField                64000a   overlay(input)
     d   packedArray                 15p 0 overlay(input) dim(8000)
     d   binaryStuff                 10i 0 overlay(input) dim(16000)

What am I missing?


Jon Paris
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