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  3. January 2005

Re: Default ASCII-EBCDIC translation

Joe Pluta wrote:
> ...
> However, let's say you DID want to pass character data, and you DID want
> the compiler to automatically translate the data from EBCDIC to ASCII,
> and so you defined your array as character data.  Here's the question:
> what translation method is used???
> 
> Is it indeed one of the many TRNTBL objects on the iSeries?  Or is it a
> CCSID-to-CCSID translation a la the iconv API?  And whatever the case,
> how does one find out exactly what translation (either TRNTBL or CCSIDs)
> is being used?
> 

It's a CCSID-to-CCSID translation via iconv done by the RPG runtime.  It
translates between the job CCSID and the ascii CCSID related to the Java
file.encoding property.

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