Re: Writing to IFS from RPGLE but needs UTF-8

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is your system value for QCHRID?  How about your jobs CCSID?

If either is 65535 that's the issue and it should be set to the proper
CCSID for your location.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM <konsult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I need to create a file in the IFS and the file HAS to be encoded in UTF-8
> (CCSID 1208).
>
> The machine is unfortunately running on V7R1 and that is due to a software
> package that cannot (as I am told be migrated to more current releases). So
> writing with SQL is out of the equation, sadly.
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> I have tested a function based on Scott Klements writings and while it
> works
> with conversion to ASCII it fails when I change to CCSID 1208.
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> As per the example the IFS file is first created with 1208 as the CCSID.
> This works and is coded thus:
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> c                   eval      fd = open('/home/ao/ch5_file3.txt':
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> c                                  O_CREAT+O_WRONLY+O_CCSID:
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> c                                  S_IWUSR+S_IRUSR+S_IRGRP+S_IROTH:
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> c                                  1208)
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> But when the file is closed an reopened this open gets an error:
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> c                   eval      fd = open('/home/ao/ch5_file3.txt':
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> c                                       O_WRONLY+O_TEXTDATA)
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> I receive an "open() conversion error"
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> Any suggestions? I assume that I need some other parameters for the second
> open when using UTF-8 but I have as yet not found which one to use or
> possibly omit.
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