Re: What is the impact of changing the system CCSID?

Is there a relationship between CCSID and Code Pages?
I'm doing ascii to ebcdic xlate and reverse (with api's) for credit card
apps.
Would this be affected by ccsid change?
Also, reading help text for cpyfrmstmf and other such commands says a lot
about 65535 and 37 (and it's not clear to me this is a "simple" change).
I assume change at system value does not convert/change existing files.
jim franz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vern Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: What is the impact of changing the system CCSID?


> I've wondered this, as well, esp. since V5R3 is more stringent about this.
> I've dug a little and think there is no problem if you are a 2924 single
> language system and have always been such. Your job gets a so-called
> default CCSID, which is based on the QLANGID, basically, so for ENU it is
> 37, which is what you want anyway. In DDS, if CCSID is not specified, it
> uses this default job CCSID, so you have had this setting through this
> default handling, I think.
>
> I just changed ours - will see what happens.
>
> CRTPF has a CCSID parameter that seems to apply when you create a flat
> file, no DDS.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> At 04:15 PM 9/22/2004, you wrote:
> >What is the impact of changing the system CCSID (sysval QCCSID) from
65535
> >to say 37? How is data affected on the system?
> >
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