Re: Literals (Was: OPNQRY reference book)

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Bruce,

Thanks for the CCSID comments.  You make an excellent point regarding using 
the default CCSID for systems set to 65535.  I am surprised that lots of 
systems still have 65535 set.  I would have thought that remote data access 
is quite common now and using DRDA, ODBC, JDBC, etc requires the system CCSID 
to be other than 65535 -- or has the job default CCSID removed that 
requirement?

I prefer the API approach anyway because it results in one less object in the 
application and can be completely controlled programmatically.  I have a set 
of wrapppers to handle the conversions with sensible default values.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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