Re: CCSID

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly - BPCS files all ship with 37...

Clare

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From: "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: CCSID


Maybe cause you're a BPCS shop in the US?

On 6/7/07, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Funny thing.  We're a BPCS shop.  I ran CHGSYSVAL QCCSID to 37 midday and
> never looked back.
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> Hi Guy,
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> Why? Well, 37 = US, and 285 = UK, and 65535 = 'don't translate'.
> BUT... before you change to one that does translate, check your
> application - for example BPCS has to be 65535 otherwise all sorts of
> unpredictable things happen to the data!
> You can change the files though - you might want to change the file that
> was
> created with '37' to '285'? Was it created on a system set to 37 Qchrid?
> Have a look at the system values QCCSID etc too. The default is 65535.
> QCHRID default is 697 37, but usually the second part is changed to a
> local
> country value. If you want to find out more, look under 'National Language
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> Support' in the IBM manuals.
> It's an interesting area though!! At least in the UK we only have the
> pound
> sign different (and just to confuse us all, when Americans say 'pound
> sign'
> they usually mean what we call 'hash'), if you were working in Turkey or
> the
> Czech Republic, there would be considerably more to worry about! It's
> especially good fun to unravel in Client/Server apps, where a hex code can
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> get translated in one direction ASCII to EBCDIC, and then the garbled
> translation is translated back again to something completely different -
> such as the character that 'blanks the screen'!
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> Hope this helps,
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> Clare
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> Clare Holtham
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy Terry" <guy.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:51 PM
> Subject: CCSID
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> My programmer has encountered a problem he's never seen on our iSeries
> before.
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> He created a new source file (CRTSRCPF) in a new library, then copied an
> existing source file into it using WKMBRPDM Option 3.
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> The original file has a CCSID of 37 and contained in it a £ symbol (that's
> a
> pound sign). When copied into the new source file it contained a $ symbol
> (dollar sign). Investigation revealed that the new file has a CCSID of
> 285.
> The question is - why?
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> Our SYSVAL QCCSID is set to 65535 (if it's relevant). Presumably the new
> file picked up the CCSID of the users job?
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> When I look at the attributes for any interactive job I see:
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> Language identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   ENG
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> Country or region identifier  . . . . . . . . . . :   GB
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> Coded character set identifier  . . . . . . . . . :   65535
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> Default coded character set identifier  . . . . . :   285
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> Can anyone explain where the 285 comes from, and what might have caused it
> to change?
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> Thanks
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>
> Guy
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