Re: CCSID issue?

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you John.

I use WSCST *PDF all the time and am familiar with the TOSTMF, it didn't
occur to me that I could use a plain text file.  That's great!  Except..
When I use WSCST *NONE the text in the stream file is not correct. The 3rd
and 4th line of text look good though.

!  LyF   !  Lyó   F1DFLT      Ú       !  Lyò   F1DFLT  !  Lyö
 ú -                    !  Lw®          ¢   \   !  L£º
 ¬FO0090,0882¬BY04,3,100¬BCN,0303,N,N¬FD>;>800008840020121578208
U¬PQ0001,0000,0000,N¬FS¬MCY¬XZ L F  !  Lzº   !  Lz®   !  Lzy

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 9:02 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> You need the *TOSTMF special value in the TOFILE parameter, and that
> is what allows the TOSTMF parameter to take effect.
>
> It was apparently new for 7.2:
>
> Found here:
>
>   https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/cl/cpysplf.htm
>
> But not found here:
>
>   https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_71/cl/cpysplf.htm
>
> The "workstation customization object" is only needed if you are
> transforming the spooled file in some way, which you're not (or not
> meaning to, anyway!). The typical use cases are covered by built-in
> special values: *NONE for straight copy-to-text and *PDF for
> convert-to-PDF.
>
> Note that it does explicitly ignore some data (mentioned at the top of
> the documentation for 7.2 linked above): blank lines, graphics, and
> bar codes.
>
> John Y.