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

Do you need to reopen it?Try to remove O_TEXTDATA  , probably it triggers some sort of auto conversion hitting maybe some problem in such very old release.Or do all normally in RPG, and then try to use some command like CPY ? It should have CCSID from-to.


On Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 04:00:48 PM GMT+1, konsult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <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.



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.



As per the example the IFS file is first created with 1208 as the CCSID.
This works and is coded thus:



c                  eval      fd = open('/home/ao/ch5_file3.txt': 

c                                  O_CREAT+O_WRONLY+O_CCSID:     

c                                  S_IWUSR+S_IRUSR+S_IRGRP+S_IROTH:

c                                  1208)                         



But when the file is closed an reopened this open gets an error:



c                  eval      fd = open('/home/ao/ch5_file3.txt':   

c                                      O_WRONLY+O_TEXTDATA)   



I receive an "open() conversion error"



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.