Re: CPYFRMSTMF & character conversion

We were just trying to establish what you expected the mystery character to translate to?


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Feb 13, 2018, at 5:36 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You are correct, there are other French characters as well.

I'm confused by your responses. I assume this is because I didn't state the problem clearly, so let me try again.

We have an existing process that takes a fixed-width text file in the QNTC file system and uses CPYFRMSTMF to import it into a flat PF. The problem that came up is with French characters in the text file. Flat PF's must have CCSID of 65535, which prevents CCSID conversion. Externally-described PF's can have other CCSID values, but they're incompatible with CPYFRMSTMF. CPYFRMIMPF requires a FLDDFNFILE when copying fixed-width data, and I don't have one.


I have a fix deployed, using the IFS API's. I'm willing to continue this discussion, or drop it. I will defer to you.

Thanks



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From: Jon Paris [mailto:jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:15 PM
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Subject: Re: CPYFRMSTMF & character conversion

But that requires translation!

I guess if you are certain that it is the only character that this will happen with you could always do a scan and replace on the string in the PF. But if you have an É in the source file there's likely to be other characters as well.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Feb 13, 2018, at 4:53 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This character needs to stay as-is:
É

Not become:
Ã■

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