Re: DBCS - traditional Chinese xlating a file

Jerry,

You do not need to install DBCS Traditional Chinese in order to provide
CCSID conversions.  You do need it if you are on a release prior to V5R3
and you want to attach DBCS displays, run jobs with a DBCS CCSID and the
like; but that doesn't appear to be what you're looking for.

But having said you don't need to change your system, you still may not be
able to convert the data to English.

If the names and address were actually stored using the latin alphabet and
just happen to be stored in CCSID 937 (Tranditional Chinese extended) then
you could simply create a file using character fields with the same names
as the Traditional Chinese file fields and then use CPYF with FMTOPT(*MAP).
The system can do this type of CCSID conversion for you.

If on the other hand the names and addresses were stored using Traditional
Chinese double byte characters in a CCSID 937 field (or a variety of other
possible DBCS CCSIDs) then there's no good way to convert to English as
those characters simply don't exist in English.  Here you would need to
find some individual or tool to convert/translate the Chinese ideographic
characters to phonetic equivalents (which may have some "customer
satisfaction" issues as you will now be addressing people in English where
previously they were addressed using Traditional Chinese).  This
consideration will not change just because you do or do not have
Traditional Chinese installed on your system.  If the names and addresses
are currently ideographic I would strongly suggest leaving them as such
(and make the appropriate changes to your applications and system) if that
is an option.

Bruce



                                                                           
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I have a file on tape of 5K names and addresses that was formerly stored on
an
AS400 in DBCS - traditional Chinese.  I need to translate the file into
English.  Seems straight forward but getting the DBCS Trad Chinese ordered
(IBM
is stalling) and installed on a test AS400 (IBM said to scratch/reload the
OS)
is proving extremely difficult.

Anyone know of a service that can perform this task or a simple roadmap?
Anyone
ever done this?

TIA,


Jerry Draper
Trilobyte Software Systems
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