RE: Determine IFS file type

We don't have the source. So that isn't possible. And there are no
documented APIs through Lawson.

I think these .prt files are created first then the spool file from that.
Lawson seems to like to make the product UNIX friendly, so they do many
things kind of backwards.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Damato

If Lawson is using CPYTOSTMF or CPYTOIMPF to generate the .prt files they're
probably leaving the parameter default for stream file code page
(STMFCODPAG).  The default parameter value is *STMF, which will create .prt
files with the same code page as the source object (EBCDIC) *unless* the
.prt file already exists.  If the .prt file already exists as an ASCII file
it will be recreated (or appended if the STMFOPT parm is *ADD) as ASCII.

You might try to verify this by scanning Lawson's environment source for the
CPYTOSTMF and CPYTOIMPF commands.

You might be able to modify Lawson's environment program(s) to hard code a
code page of *PCASCII or *STDASCII on these commands.  I have no idea what
Lawson uses these files for (other than wasting a lot of disk), so I don't
know what functions might be expecting EBCDIC files and what you might screw
up.

You can visually check the character set of the file by performing a WRKLNK
and checking attributes.  I have no idea how to retrieve it
programmatically.  Maybe there's an API?