Pm4data transfers and national character set problems

We transfer files from system-I to other servers (mainly data warehouse) using an mq-series based tool "pm4data". Problems occur when alphabetic fields in the file contain "non-standard" characters like "E" with caret and others. In this case pm4data fills the entire record with "@" signs and the receiver side app blows up.



We have tried an approach where we filter out the "illegal" characters we have found but there always seem to be more. The input data is sent from some 40 countries which seems to add to the problem.



Also so far we have found no documentation from Metastorm (pm4data vendor) on which hex-codes they accept. If such a table could be found it would be of immense help.



Also any ideas on how to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.



Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Åke Olsson



Pdb DataSystem AB

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