Re: Instantiating same class from java or rpg program

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OKogan=YIIhEVrBDcoOKQVC8Cy+LtBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have data in a file stored in a binary capable VARCHAR field (CCSID 
>65535). This is ASCII data compressed with a GZIP in java.
> If I retrieve and unzip this data in java program it works just fine.
>
> When I try to do the same thing in RPG it gives me an error Message . . . . :
>
>  Java exception received when calling Java method.
>  Cause . . . . . :   RPG procedure UNZIPSTR in program UNZIPSTR/OLEG received
>   Java exception "java.io.IOException: Not in GZIP format" when calling method
>   "<ini" with signature "" in class "java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream".
>

I think you're running into the same problem that DReid is having with
RPG automatically doing a CCSID conversion from the job CCSID to ASCII.
Since your data is already ASCII, this won't work.  See my reply to
DReid.