RE: Moving bytes from a SBCS EBCDIC field to a DBCS Unicode fieldwithout translation

> From: Jon Paris
> 
> I missed the first part of this thread so if I'm missing something here
> please excuse me but ...
> 
> Why not simply define the input parm as character?  You are only going to
> receive a pointer anyway, so the interpretation of the data is entirely up
> to you.
> 
> If that "field" is a DS then you can do whatever you want.  Like so:
> 
>      d input           ds
>      d   ucs2Field1               16000c
>      d   ucs2Field2               16000c
>      d   charField                64000a   overlay(input)
>      d   packedArray                 15p 0 overlay(input) dim(8000)
>      d   binaryStuff                 10i 0 overlay(input) dim(16000)
> 
> What am I missing?

I don't think you're missing anything, Jon.  I think this is exactly what
James was asking; can he just redefine the field.  My point, though, is that
if the RPG program is receiving Unicode data, define the parameter as
Unicode.  Or, if the data is raw binary bytes, define it as an array of
bytes (3u0).  Specifically defining the type of data expected can only help
to document the procedure.

Joe