Re: Jobs that use 65535 CCSID... Why?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Patrick.

It's not my system.  It's a customer's system.  I suggested correcting the
QCCSID issue, but nothing yet.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:31 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Brad,
>
> Am 04.01.2022 um 15:21 schrieb Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > It made me think of a question I've been wondering about for a while.
> Why
> > is this CCSID used?
>
> The more interesting point is: How did your job get this CCSID assigned in
> the first place?
>
> > Should this CCSID be treated differently than others when working with
> > translations?  Or would it make sense to have the user set their job's
> > CCSID to something more "meaningful"?
>
> I'd say, a job ID of 65535 makes no sense and should be corrected.
>
> You might consider reading this:
> https://ibmdocs.pocnet.net/SG24-2154-00.pdf (Speak the Right Language
> with Your AS/400 System) — the concepts are mostly still current today.
>
> > I see it used more and more... what is the purpose of this, and why does
> it
> > seem to almost be a default on some systems (mostly non US from what I
> see).
>
> Usually, the job CCSID is indirectly derived from the QCCSID system value.
> As others pointed out, 65535 has been the default value, at least in
> earlier releases. If you see this more often, I'd say because nobody did
> set it to the correct value at installation time.
>
> :wq! PoC
>
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