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

65535 QCCSID is a constant pain in the side for database drivers,
because it makes conversions a lot less predictable.

On Tue, 2022-01-04 at 08:21 -0600, Brad Stone wrote:
In another thread on the RPG list the job CCSID of  65535 came up. 
Niels
called it the "no translation" CCSID.

It made me think of a question I've been wondering about for a
while.  Why
is this CCSID used?  I've never seen it do anything but cause
translation
errors when working with stream files or sockets.

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 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).


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