Re: Create a properties file in QSH with the correct codepage 437 -How?

A couple of options depending on which release you're in.
Although it won't matter for I'd actually probably
use code page 819 instead of 437 for the file, 819 is the
default Java file encoding (ISO8859_1) if you're running in code page
37.

See iSeries and AS/400 information center at
<URL:http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/> for more information on qshell
and java language/file encoding topics.

V4R5, V5R1:
touch -C 437 file.properties
echo "Prop=value" >> file.properties

V5R2:
support for the  QIBM_CCSID environment variable and a utility called
iconv. Some other utilities are going through updates to have a -C
parameter
for files.

Any release:
Write a simple java program that writes out your property file (it will
write
it in the correct CCSID) or use a file encoding value to read the file
as ebcdic.
Start here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm
Programming->Java->IBM Developer Kit for
Java->Customization->Internationalization->Character Encodings



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Ok folks...

My data corruption problems stem from the creation of the properties file
in QSH:

echo "serverip=$server" > /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties
chmod 600 /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties
echo "mixedcaseuserids=true" >> /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties
echo "description=$desc" >> /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties
echo "http.port=$httpport" >> /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties
echo "keystorepwd=$key" >> /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties
echo "debug=false" >> /opt/AVAps/bin/psunix.properties

Standard out has a codepage of 37 (the default display code page).

I need a code page on the properties file of 437.  How do you create your
properties files
in QSH?

Kristen


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