Re: how to hard code @ sign in RPGLE program with out having to worry about CCSID

Barbara,

I'm still puzzled. Even more than before :-)

- The manual says: 'When CCSID(*CHAR : *JOBRUN) is not specified, character data will be assumed to be in the mixed-byte CCSID related to the job CCSID.'
- In my test program I did not specify CCSID(*CHAR:*JOBRUN); that would imply that the character data was assumed to be in the mixed-byte CCSID related to the job CCSID.
- When I ran my test program in a job with CCSID 37, the Unicode characters were converted to the equivalent characters in CCSID 37. In a job with CCSID 500 they were converted to 500.

Intuitively I expected conversion to job CCSID, and that is what I found, but it is not what the manual says. According to the manual I should have used CCSID(*CHAR:*JOBRUN) to get the results I got, but I did not specify it.

And I still don't know what the mixed-byte CCSID's are that are related to 37 and 500.

Joep Beckeringh


Barbara Morris schreef:

Joep, if you code CCSID(*CHAR:*JOBRUN) in your H spec, then RPG will assume that character data is in the job CCSID. RPG will only assume a mixed-byte CCSID if the job CCSID is already a mixed-byte CCSID.