Re: CCSID (I think) problem

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Denis,

You wrote:
>When I look at the hex value in the files on the Ontario machine, I
>have X'4A' for the braket as we should expect. When I do a CA transfer,
>if I do not instruc CA to translate from CCSID 65535 and have the result
>sent to the display, I get the Hex value sent (40 for blank space ...)
>So if I look where X'4A' should be, I find X'B0'!!! so there is some
>translation going on.

This makes no sense at all.  If you have a X'4A' code point and it is
displayed as a left-square-bracket then you are using CP500 (given the
information we know so far) to view the data.  However, you said the
Ontario machine was 697-37 in which case the left-square-bracket is x'BA'.
x'4A' is a CP37 'cent' sign which explains why you see a 'cent' sign when
you transfer that file to the PC.  EBCDIC 'cent' in CP37 is x'4A' and is
converted to ASCII 'cent' sign in CP1252 as x'A2'.

X'4A' is a CP500 left-square-bracket.

X'B0' is a CP500 'cent' sign.  It is also a CP37 'caret' which often gets
mistranslated as a 'cent' sign in ASCII.

What are LANGID, CCSID, DEFAULT JOB CCSID of the job you use when viewing
the data on the Ontario system?  What is the CCSID of the file/field.

If you want get to the bottom of this send me the following information:

Codepage (and OS) of the target PC
QLANGID of both AS/400 systems
DSPFD and DSPFFD of the file from both AS/400 systems
CPYF of 1 record from both systems (the same record) containing the 'bad'
characters with OUTPUT(*PRINT) OUTFMT(*HEX)
Hex dump of the same record after transferring to the PC (both downloads)
DSPJOBD OUTPUT(*PRINT) of the job description used by the job that creates
the data.
Tell me on what system the data is created
Tell me how you get the file from Ontario AS/400 to Quebec AS/400

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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