Re: Toolbox bug???

Pre-mod4 (pre-v5r1) the Toolbox used code in the JVM as its primary method
of converting strings.  Sun must not mandate what conversion tables are
required because we saw a wide variety in the number of conversion tables
in the various JVMs.  Our secondary way to convert strings was to download
a conversion table from the iSeries and convert the data in our code.  That
is why an AS400 object was required.  If the JVM did not have a conversion
table then we would use the AS400 object as the path to the iSeries to get
a table.

With V5R1 (mod 4) this is not as big a deal because we no longer use JVM
routines.  They tended to be slow and not always accurate in the DBCS
cases.  We optimized our own logic and ship as complete a set of tables as
possible.  In almost all cases your conversion will work without an AS400
object since we already have everything we need so you can ignore the
deprecation warning.  In fact, we are un-deprecating the methods in Toolbox
mod 5.

David Wall
AS/400 Toolbox for Java




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I may have found a (very minor) bug in the toolbox.

I've tried using the AS400FileRecordDescription.createRecordFormatSource to
RecordFormat objects for some of my As400 database files.

The generated source, when imported into VAJ gives a ruckload of
depreciated
warnings.

It seems that it using a depreciated constructor whenever is creates an
AS400Text object, which it does for every charater field. AS400Text now
expects an AS400 object to be passed so it can get the Codepage stuff
direct
from the AS.

Is there a work around for this problem? I've fixed it for now by adding an
AS400 object into the RecordFormat constructor, but this is not a good
solution if creating large numbers of RecordFormat objects.

Chris.


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