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Re: Transferring Unicode data

Your saving the file as unicode text? DId you open up the file on your PC
with something like Notepad++ and see if that can read it? What unicode
code pages are the files?

Hex code 0x25 is EBCDIC Line feed, so maybe your telling the system to read
in the text file with Unix style newlines (Carriage return) but excel is
saving windows style (carriage return, line feed).

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:03 PM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd transfer the data directly from excel using the data transfer add-in.

Charles

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:59 AM, mlazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:

COL1 40G CCSID(13488 20)
COL2 40G CCSID(13488 20)
LONGFIELD 2000G CCSID(13488 1000)

- Reverse the steps to bring back to the PC.

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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