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The command works, however the file seems to be in EBCDIC when I try and open it in EXCEL on the PC. I'm presuming that a code conversion hasn't taken place. It looks fine when I open the file in the iSeries.
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Two statements sum up what's happening:
1) When QShell writes it's output to an IFS file, it converts
the data to whichever CCSID the file is tagged with.
2) When QShell creates a new file, by default, it'll tag it
with the default CCSID for the current job.
So when you run your example program, and it creates an IFS file, it
tags it with the CCSID of your job, which is almost certainly an
EBCDIC one.
You can override this default by setting the QIBM_CCSID environment
variable to the CCSID you want to use. For example, if you set it to
1252, it'll create any new files with CCSID 1252, which is Microsoft's
encoding for Latin-1 ASCII.
Here's an example:
a) First delete the old file
rm /mxp/mxpsql.csv
b) then set the CCSID before running your command this can be done
in one big QShell statement if you like:
export QIBM_CCSID=1252; db2 "select agtbra || ',' || char(agtnoa)
|| ',' || agtnaa from anvdev.agtmas" | sed -n '/,/p' > /mxp/mxpsql.csv
Or, you can run the "export QIBM_CCSID=1252" as a separate command before the SQL statement. Or you can set it with the ADDENVVAR CL command before running QShell. Whatever you prefer.
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