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Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] ibm_db_dbi UnicodeDecodeError
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 09:48:09 -0500
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Interesting. I don't even know if it's possible on our system to
create a column whose name contains a character outside the 7-bit
ASCII range, using any means.

I don't know if your issue is a "known problem" but I would not be
surprised if such column names cannot be manipulated with ibm_db_dbi,
despite your CCSID.

As a workaround, get the column names from SYSCOLUMNS, since there the
"names" are just data, which you already confirmed you can work with.

John Y.

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Re: [IBMiOSS] ibm_db_dbi UnicodeDecodeError , Craig Richards

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