Re: OK to change QCCSID from 65535 to 37? -- MIDRANGE-L

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> We've done it with no problems.  There really isn't much reason to recommend 
>the
> 65535 CCSID, since it causes problems with other things like ODBC and CA/400
> file transfer as well.  The only "problem" we get is an occasional printer
> message indicating that it had to make a translation in the font, but we 
>haven't
> seen any problems with the output, just the odd message in the printer job 
>log.
> I would make the change.  Does anybody know why the untranslateable 65535 is
> still the default?

i don't know, but assumed that if you created a file without dds, it was 
possible that
there was packed or binary data in it.

nj

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