Re: Reading from the IFS

"One of those attributes is a CCSID that you're supposed to set to tell 
the system what sort of data is stored in the file.  It might be a CCSID 
that corresponds to an ASCII character set.  It might be a CCSID that 
corresponds to an EBCDIC character set.  Or Unicode. Or whatever.

When you read the data from the file, the system is reading bytes.  It's 
just copying data from disk to memory as a bunch of bytes.

Then, depending on the options you used when you opened the file, it'll 
provide other services for you, such as translating from the file's CCSID 
(which could be ASCII or EBCDIC or Unicode) to your job's CCSID (which is 
probably EBCDIC, but could be any of a number of different flavors of 
EBCDIC)."

Thanks Scott - I guess my confusion of the subject (and hence my question 
to the list) is what made my question confusing too. Portions of your 
response (included above) explain just what I was trying to understand. 
And thanks for the tutorial too! 

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
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Toledo, OH 43623-4299
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