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Thanks Rob
So it looks like that this doesn't work on 7.1

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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 8:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters

I pasted that into Run SQL Scripts. The ONLY change I made was to put a semicolon at the end.
Worked great.
Tried STRSQL.
Worked great.
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+..
DATA HEX_DATE FOUND_AT
abcdefghij 81828384858687070707888991 8
abcdefghij 81828307070784858687888991 4
abcdefghij 81828384850707078687888991 6

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From: Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/15/2018 08:12 AM
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Hi Coy
Well I cut and pasted you SQL into STRSQL and here is my results

DATA FOUND_AT
abc defghij 0
abcde fghij 0
abcdefg hij 0

I then slightly changed it
with junk as (
select concat(concat('abc', x'070707'), 'defghij') data from
sysibm.sysdummy1
union
select concat(concat('abcde', x'070707'), 'fghij') data from
sysibm.sysdummy1
union
select concat(concat('abcdefg', x'070707'), 'hij') data from
sysibm.sysdummy1
)
select data, hex(data) as Hex_date,
position(x'070707', data) found_at
from junk

Which displayed the following
DATA HEX_DATE FOUND_AT
abc defghij 81828307070784858687888991 0
abcde fghij 81828384850707078687888991 0
abcdefg hij 81828384858687070707888991 0
******** End of data ********

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
'If you're going through hell, keep going.'
Winston Churchill

From: Alan Shore
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 7:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters

Thanks Coy
Will check this tomorrow



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-------- Original message --------
From: "Krill, Coy" <CKrill@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:CKrill@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
Date: 2/14/18 5:16 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx<
mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Try this and see if it works, in case something is up with your system.
I'm pretty sure this worked back on 7.1 but I'm on 7.3.

with junk as (
select concat(concat('abc', x'070707'), 'defghij') data from
sysibm.sysdummy1
union
select concat(concat('abcde', x'070707'), 'fghij') data from
sysibm.sysdummy1
union
select concat(concat('abcdefg', x'070707'), 'hij') data from
sysibm.sysdummy1
)
select data, position(x'070707', data) found_at
from junk;

Mine looks like this:

abcdefghij 8
abcdefghij 4
abcdefghij 6

Coy Krill
Core Processing Administrator/Analyst
Washington Trust Bank


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Alan Shore
Sent: 2018 February 14 13:58
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx<
mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Importance: Low

Thanks Coy
I am playing around with the query you sent me - so far - no luck - but
its still early

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx<mailto:ASHORE@xxxxxxxx>
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
'If you're going through hell, keep going.'
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Krill, Coy
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:54 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx<
mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters

That's an EBCDIC DEL character not ASCII where it's a BEL, I was
misremembering which was which. We had problems with 07 bell and 08
backspace. They didn't convert correctly to EBCDIC, I don't remember what
we had doing the conversion but it ignored control characters and left
them as is, so we had RPG III code that removed both of those characters.
They were warranty registration cards from a service bureau that did the
data entry so I never knew why those would be embedded. Now that I think
about it, I think those came on 8" floppies too <shiver>.

Coy Krill
Core Processing Administrator/Analyst
Washington Trust Bank


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Krill, Coy
Sent: 2018 February 14 13:37
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx<
mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject: RE: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Importance: Low

I don't know about finding foreign charactes, but you can look for hex
strings using position:

select *
from file
where position(x'070707', field) != 0

It might also be interesting to note that x07 is the delete character and
way back in the day (late '80s) I remember seeing lots of those being
stored in text strings especially when we were getting ASCII date from
some service bureau.

Coy Krill
Core Processing Administrator/Analyst
Washington Trust Bank

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Alan Shore
Sent: 2018 February 14 08:03
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: How to recognize "foreign" characters
Importance: Low

Hi everyone
Before I forget - we are on V7r1

Our system receives orders that sometimes contains "foreign" characters -
chines etc., Arabic Looking at the data in hexadecimal, it seems to be
consistently 070707, but never in the same place or length Is there any
way (via SQL) to look for these characters within the string?

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx<mailto:ASHORE@xxxxxxxx>
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
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