Re: 5250 And Unicode

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

That might work if you're using unicode to store ASCII data....

But if you've got true unicode data, it's not going to work...

Charles

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Hello List,
>
>   Here's a bit of a followup on this item .... I mentioned late yesterday
>   that I was working in COBOL .... well, it turns out that COBOL has a built
>   in capability of doing these conversions for you right in the database
>   read.  Really simplifies my life to have this.
>
>   On the PROCESS statement, you need the following options:
>
>           NTLCCSID(13488) CVTPICNGRAPHIC
>
>   Then, when you read the database with the GRAPHIC field that is defined as
>   UCS_2, it will return the correct field values to you that you can then
>   work with.
>
>   Rich Loeber - @richloeber
>   Kisco Information Systems
>   [1]http://www.kisco.com
>   SDG
>
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>
>   On 5/1/2012 2:10 PM, Bryan Dietz wrote:
>
>  In V7.1 there exists a 5250 web session. It is included in the *ADMIN
>  instance of the webserver. So unless you need all that Access for the
>  web offers you may find this easier to use.
>
>  i found it under:
>  IBM i Management
>  5250 Emulation
>
>  Bryan
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Scott Klement
>  [2]<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>  1) To display Unicode on 5250, you need iSeries Access for Web.
>  Traditional 5250 emulators only support EBCDIC (not Unicode).
>
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