Re: Translation problems

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

> I am having problems converting ASCII to EBCDIC.  I am using the rexec API
> to process a program and receive parameters back from the program.  When I
> receive the parameters back (from the stdin stream), the results are in
> ASCII.  I am using the QDCXLATE call to convert ASCII to EBCDIC.  The table
> I am using is QEBCDIC.

I prefer QTCPEBC, and QTCPASC, but the "correct" table will probably
depend on your country/language.

> The translations are not occurring correctly.  For example....  the data to
> be translated is "test 1".  The data is translated into "TEST".  Another
> line of data "TEST 2" is translated into "TEST".

I'm not clear on what you're saying here.  Are you saying that it's
converting "test" into "TEST"? (in order words, converting the word to
all-uppercase?)   If so, I know that's not the normal behavior of QEBCDIC,
so I'm a bit confused.

Or, are you saying that it's stripping off the number?  Like converting
"TEST 1" to "TEST"?  If so, that again isn't the behavior ot QDCXLATE.
It's more likely that you're reading the data faster than the network can
transport it, and therefore you're getting partial data returned.

> I was going to use the API IConv, but the examples are not quite clear.

Have you checked the archives for examples of iconv()?  I know that it has
been posted before.  If not, let me know and I'll post a new example.
But, if the problem is that the data is getting chopped off, iconv() isn't
going to solve the problem.