Re: Is ccsid 65535 cvt to 37 painless?

Jim Franz wrote:
> I have a customer V4r5 with default ccsid 65535, using
> ftp, CA transfers, async credit card comm using qascii code page
> conversion. Now need to add web cgi. The cgidev2 docs
> strongly suggest changing system to a proper ccsid, and
> is "usually" is painless. I don't have a spare system to test
> that theory.
> Is it truly required? Is it safe?
> I searched the archives and found lots of discussion about ccsid, but
> not really desribing how the change went (if they did it at all).
> Sorry for the post to two lists, but question equally applies.
>
> jim franz (who will be shot if i bring the applications down)

Hi Jim

>From what I remember, going to 285 (UK) on both of our boxes (V4R3 or V4R2
at the time I think) a few years back didn't turn up any problems - at
least I'm still alive to tell the tale ;) If anything, it solved CA
transfer errors (character fields coming across as garbage).

I would have thought you'd have even less problems going to 37, as the
CGIDEV2 stuff is mostly that already. I had to switch the source files
from 37 & 280 (Italian) to 285 in order to get the examples to work
properly - the section delimiter was mistranslated from $ to £ (dollar to
sterling) and the template html wouldn't load.

Regards, Martin
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