Can CCSID cause this?

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday I downloaded the CGIDEV2 from IBM and installed it this 
morning.  As part of the install it said the system value QCCSID could 
not be 65535 or it wouldn't work.  The README said "No impact to 
existing production."  Ours was 65535 so I changed it to 37 and 
restarted the HTTP server per the instructions.  (We have no web site.)

About that same time orders that are transmitted from our salespeople 
stopped being processed properly.  What is supposed to happen is the 
order is FTPed from a W2K Server PC to the iSeries, a REXEC is fired off 
to process the order, and the results are FTPed back to the W2K Server. 
What actually happened is the order would be FTPed to the iSeries and 
not processed.  It's as if the REXEC was never fired.  But the job 
_must_ have been fired because there are begin/end entries in the system 
log, but no job log.  And I could fire them off manually at the command 
line and they would be processed.

Finally I just ended the HTTP server, changed the CCSID back to 65535, 
and rebooted the W2K Server.  After that, now all is well.

Could my changing the CCSID have caused this?  It sure seems like more 
than coincidence, but I need smarter brains than mine to figure it out.

I will be out this afternoon, but checking email throughout the weekend. 
 Thanks.

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

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