Re: Base64 differences

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ascii vs ebcdic

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:34 AM Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm working on a base64 string.  I've tried bash and SQL, and I'm getting
> different results.  I'm trying to figure out why, and if either is correct
> for the desired HTTP call I need to make.  Could this be a CCSID problem?
>
> Here the two different tries:
>
> values(SYSTOOLS.BASE64ENCODE('username:password'))
> pKKFmZWBlIV6l4GioqaWmYQ=
>
> -bash-5.1$ echo 'username:password' | base64
> dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQK
>
>
> TIA
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