Re: "Conversion Error" when opening Stream File

Brad,

Do you specify CCSID or code page in the open() API? If you use flag 
O_CCSID, you specify the CCSID; if you use flag O_CODEPAGE, you specify 
the code page, which is used to derive a CCSID.

Joep Beckeringh






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This sort of falls back to the DBCS issues I'm having with
a client.

Anyhow, we have physical file containing all text, and a
CCSID of 935.  One field in the PF of type "O".  The text
contains some DBCS chinese characters.

Now, we're trying to read this file and write it to a
stream file using the IFS APIs. 

For the open API we're specifing a CCSID of 1381.

But, on the open API call, we're getting a "Conversion
error" message and the job fails.  The error actually shows
the line number of the error as the definition for the open
API itself instead of the actual call, though.  (odd, I
thought it would have been on the call).

Now, we've succesfully taken this PF and copied it to a
stream file using CPYTOIMPF, and that works fine.  We
specify *STDASCII as the "to" CCSID and it automatically
creates it as 1381. 

But, we need to use a program to do the conversion to a
stream file because we do maniuplate some of the data as
we're going through it.

This generic "conversion error" is sort of driving me nuts,
though, as I can't find any information on it except "the
CCSID is invalid".

Well, if CPYTOIMPF can do it, shouldn't I be able to?  :)

Thanks for any assistance with this.