Re: CCSID conversion from 13488 to 37

Hi Jim,
 
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I am looking for some coding examples for converting CCSID 13488 to CCSID
37. I am looking into using a password validation pgm that has to allow for
incoming parms in CCSID 13488.....Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA, Jim !
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When you say convert CCSID 13488 to CCSID 37 are you talking about
converting a byte stream within a RPG program? If so then you want to use
iconv.
 
To use iconv you create a conversion descriptor (in your case specifying
conversion between 13488 and 37). You then pass the conversion decriptor, a
couple of pointers, and a couple of ints to iconv(). Then iconv will
converts the data on the first pointer from the first CCSID to the second
CCSID, and places it on the second pointer. In your case you simply pass the
addresses and lengths of your program variables.
 
Also, the beauty of this approach is that you can pass a CCSID of 0 (zero)
when you create your conversion descriptor and it will default to the job
CCSID. This is useful for us in Europe where we have multiple production
machines, each using different CCSIDs. It means we can convert passed data
from a known CCSID to the job CCSID without needing to know the CCSID in use
within the job.
 
If you need code samples just shout (but I'm sure the archives are littered
with them).
 
Cheers
 
Larry Ducie