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What is the "safest" way to do file transfers with Unicode data?
Meaning, to keep the integrity of the data, not from a security standpoint.
I need to transfer multi-language files between outside sources (to
and from the system), e.g. Excel, or other PC file and the IFS or a
native *FILE. I have tried various methods, but along the way some data
gets garbled. Example:
- In Excel, I saved it as Unicode text.
- Drag and drop from the PC to the IFS via Navigator.
- CPYFRMIMPF to a DB. DDS Definition:
The result is:
COL1 contains the data, but has a leading x'25' in all the records,
except the first, which had a bunch of x'33' characters, instead of real
data.
COL2 seems to be OK.
LONGFIELD gets a bit garbled, but not completely.
COL1 and COL2 only contain numbers and some basic punctuation, like a
'-', so it might be coincidence that the data is OK there.
Since there are several steps happening during the transfer and I
can't display the representative characters on a 5250 style session
(those languages are not loaded on the system), it's tough to debug this.
-mark
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