RE: Brain cramp: reading an IFS file from program running on PC

David:

Isn't CCSID 37 a North American flavor of EBCDIC? See
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid37.jsp

I tried your program out on my property file and it worked fine.
However the code page of my property file is 1252.

I think the read() method of IFSTextFileInputStream (instead of
IFSFileInputStream) would converted from EBCDIC to Unicode.

Bill

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[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 11:12 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Brain cramp: reading an IFS file from program running on PC

Folks:

I'm having a brain cramp ... what's wrong with this code?

I'm trying to load a properties file from the IFS to determine what, if
any, default java version a user has. The code is running on a PC.

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User user = new User(as400, as400.getUserId());
user.loadUserInformation();

String homedir = user.getHomeDirectory();

String propertiesFile = homedir + IFSFile.separatorChar +
"SystemDefault.properties";

IFSFile file = new IFSFile(as400, propertiesFile);
int ccsid = file.getCCSID();

Properties defaults = new Properties();

IFSFileInputStream is = new IFSFileInputStream(file);

defaults.load(is);

is.close();

String javaVersion = defaults.getProperty("java.version");
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The bytes I'm getting in the properties are correct ... but they are the
ebcdic values, not unicode.

The IFS file has a CCSID of 37.

Thanks!

david