RE: File CCSID and Logicals

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To answer my own question:

If a logical for a physical file is in use when the CCSID for the physical
file is
changed, the logical CCSID will not change.

When the logical file is not being used and the CCSID for the physical file
is changed,
the logical CCSID will also change.

I had to do this again for another file, and watched the messages.  There is
a slight
difference in the messages given upon changing the CCSID with an in-use
logical and
without logicals in use, although no message is given to the job log.

Regards,

Jim Langston

> We have an application where all the files are CCSID 65535, meaning no
conversion. We
> have the files in 2 environments, test and live. I need to be able to open
up some
> logicals from VA-RPG, so changed the CCSID of one of the physical files in
our live
> environment to 37, then opened up the logical and got ASCII data. Logical
files don't
> seem to have a CCSID. All well and good. I then go to open up this same
file in the test
> environment, and get EBSIDIC data. I checked the CCSID of the physical
file and it was
> 37, but still I didn't get translation. I wound up having to recompile the
logical file,
> and then I got ASCII data in VA-RPG, well and good. My question is: Why
did I have to
> recompile the logical file on one of these, but not the other? I am going
to be using a
> lot of files in VA-RPG and since all our files are 65535 I'm going to have
to change the
> CCSID, and I need to understand what is it that makes me have to recompile
a logical to
> get the logical to be the same CCSID.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim Langston