Brakets have wrong Hex code [] <--- these

Brad,

Try a table such as Q037337850 rather than QASCII.

The x'BA' and x'BB' codepoints you are seeing with your EBCDIC file
indicate that your file is stored in a CCSID such as 37.  Your analysis
of QASCII expecting x'4A' and x'5A', on the other hand, indicates that
QASCII assumes you file is stored in a CCSID such as 500.

By using a table such as Q037337850 you are explicitly calling for
a mapping from CCSID 37 to CCSID 850 (PC Multi-lingual) and not just
taking whatever the S/38 (which is where QASCII comes from) used to
assume for EBCDIC and ASCII encoding.

To really play it safe you could look (DSPFD) to see what CCSID the
file is really in (I'm guessing 37 based on the two code points you
provided) and then find the appropriate table in one of the appendixes
to the International Application Development manual.

Or better yet stop using tables (which like QASCII are just hold overs
from previous decades) and use CCSID based interfaces.  In your case,
moving from I assume source files to stream files, CPY might do
quite nicely.

Bruce

>
>Working on a program that uses brackets.  [ and ].  They show up as x'BA'
>and x'BB' in EBCDIC.  When I copy the file with them to a stream file, they
>are converted to x'E2' and x'E3' for ASCII which actually is garbage and not
>what I want.
>
>They should be x'5B' and x'5D' in ASCII.  Looking at the QASCII table, the
>values need to be x'4A' and x'5A' in EBCDIC do convert correctly.
>
>Anyone have any ideas without having to specifically specify the hex values
>that will convert??
>
>Brad
>


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