SOLVED, Re: ECONVR (errno=3490) on an IFS open() call?

DAMN, these things are counterintuitive.

Added an O_CCSID to the OFlags (and the necessary other fields) (whitespace columns squeezed to fit):

D OFLG S 10I 0 INZ(16777249) 1+32+16777216
* (O_RDONLY + O_CCSID + O_TEXTDATA)
D MODE S 10I 0 INZ(0)
D CCSID S 10I 0 INZ(37)

and then changed the open to:

C EVAL FD = OPEN(%TRIM(PATH):OFLG:MODE:CCSID)

and it worked right off. Even though I was specifying MY CCSID, rather than the FILE's CCSID.

Somewhere in all the stuff I've been reading over the past few hours, I read something (I think it was from Mr. Klement) to the effect that specifying O_CCSID overrides a default of O_TEXTDATA using codepage conversion, and that this is enough to allow a 1208 --> 37 conversion to happen.

Even though I solved the immediate problem (and in the process, removed a bit of confusing code where I was calling the variable containing the OFlags parameter MODE), I'd greatly appreciate it if somebody could tell my WHY my solution worked.

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