Re: DFU with field type G

On 21/02/2010, at 3:27 AM, ewart.desouza@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Any if you tried creating a DFU for maintaining a file having field type G
???

Just tried it on VRM530. Worked OK for me but I did have to:

a) Use a DBCS version of PC5250 (5.7)
b) Set my job CCSID to something compatible with the CCSID of the Graphic data type
c) Set the IME to my desired input form--I used both Hiragana and Wide Latin.

When I tried that I get all 'junk' displayed as data on screen as pasted
below. Since Query/400 works with this data type I thought DFU too would
work - unfortunately it seems DFU does not acknowledge this data type.


User : à â ä ê + è
Trans No : ê à â ( ñ +
Line No : 1000
Batch No :

That would seem to be a CCSID problem. See if there are any messages in the job log related to CCSID conversion.

Is your Graphic data type simply for DBCS or have you also specified a Unicode CCSID for the field? Perhaps DFU doesn't handle the Unicode form?

I want to avoid writing maintenance programs for such data. Anyone have
any ideas ???

We are on V5R4.

PTFs?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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