Re: Determine IFS file type

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think you could use the CPY command to convert any STMF to the CCSID (or
code page) you want. The command will take whatever is the original CCSID
and convert it to whatever you specify:

CPY OBJ('\lawsondir\lawsonfile.txt') TODIR('\yourdir') FROMCCSID(*OBJ)
TOCCSID(*PCASCII) DTAFMT(*TEXT)

*PCASCII is the Windows character set, *STDASCII is the old PC DOS one

You don't need to worry what is in the original.

At 10:45 AM 4/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Lawson creates a .prt text file on the IFS for every report it creates. We
>want to be able to read that file for some custom java programs. I have
>looked at these before and have noticed that they are EBCDIC files. However,
>one program (RW100) seems to be different. On one job (Preliminary) it
>creates the files as EBCDIC, the other job (Final) creates plain text (NOTE:
>these are the same job except by name). How can we determine what type the
>file is so we can properly read it into our java program or fix it so that
>they are all of one type (EBCDIC or ASCII).
>
>Mike Wills
>IT Corporate Support
>Taylor Corporation
>mnwills@taylorcorp.com
>Phone: (507) 386-3187
>
>
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