Thanks to you all for your help. I have to work on something else right
now, so I'll let you know my results I get back to this program. I got
as far as looking at the hex value and it was "05".
Nancy Barney
IT - Programmer
Dakota Drug, Inc.
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[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:13 PM
To: COBOL Programming on the iSeries/AS400
Subject: Re: [COBOL400-L] READING A TAB DELIMITED FILE IN ILE COBOL
On 08/06/2010, at 10:27 AM, CRPence wrote:
As I recall, the DSPF converts the presented data from an ASCII
CCSID to an EBCDIC CCSID [for a text stream file anyhow],
irrespective of job CCSID. I had always used the DMP command to get
the raw hex values of the data in a STMF.
I recall someone saying that on these lists in previous e-mail (you or
Bruce Vining?) but when I check the DSPF hex output for a CCSID 819
stream file I see:
48657265 20697320 61206C69 6E65206F 66207465 Here is a line of te
The job is in CCSID 37 and the text is legible so must be in that
CCSID but the actual data is tagged with 819 and the hex codes appear
to be ASCII. The spaces are the obvious marker being X'20' instead of
the EBCDIC X'40'.
So it appears that in hex mode DSPF shows the hex for the raw data but
converts the displayable section to the job CCSID. Perhaps this was
changed at V5RyMz because I do recall that earlier (V4)
implementations showed the hex of the converted data.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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