Re: CPYFRMSTMF & character conversion

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/14/2018
12:02:09 PM:

On 2/14/2018 11:36 AM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

I don't know. But, think about it, 1252 is an ASC-II code

page.

So, the only way that the word "sample" (as displayed on Windows) will

still display as the word "sample" on the IBM i is if ASC-II to EBCDIC

translation has taken place.

WRKLNK will display a 1252 ASCII file to me in 037 EBCDIC (my job's
CCSID). I can edit this file with Notepad in ASCII, and then look at it
on green screen in EBCDIC (mapped drive). I 100% verify that the byte
content of this file is ASCII. Spaces are x'20', not x'40'.

Understood. But translation is still being done -- albeit, in
your case, at display time. However, in the OP's case, I was giving to
understand that the data was still displayable as human-readable text
AFTER it was transferred to the flat file. In this case, the flat file is
CCSID 65535 and would NOT be translated for display purposes. Thus, at
least the human-readable text in the flat file would have to be EBCDIC
format.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark