RE: Creating a unicode file in the IFS

Hi, Mark:

Your suggestion is a very good one if we know that all systems involved are
AS/400s. I can see cases though where this process would need to work with
non-i systems (yes, the rumors are true: the world is not made up solely of
i [for the first time, I see the pun in that], nor even IBM). For any other
system, I don't think SAV is going to work.

Dennis Lovelady
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:23 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Creating a unicode file in the IFS

Hi, Dennis:

I don't think "tar" knows anything about CCSIDs; since this appears to
be going from one OS/400 system to another, perhaps you could use SAV
to
save the IFS streamfiles in a save file, then FTP the save file, and
then use RST to restore them? Not quite as easy as "tar" but at least
SAV and RST know about CCSID.

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 8/25/2010 4:11 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

Slight variation of this topic. I primarily work with systems in two
countries: Germany and USA. On each of these systems, my profile's

CCSID is

set to 37. DSPJOB option 2 shows 37 for CCSID, 37 for Default CCSID.

When I go to into QSH on either system and type a command like "touch
new_file" then a new file will be created with CCSID 37. So far so

good.

But now I want to interchange files from one system with the other.

The

files I want to interchange (from the German system) are all CCSID

819. I

use a command like "tar cvf mytar.tar path_to_files" to package these

files.

Interestingly the tarball is created with CCSID 819. (I don't know

why this

would be, but I like it - I think.)

Now, I ftp the file to my PC. Because of security restrictions, in

order to

get the file to the USA system, I have to make a pit stop at a local

server:

FTP to intermediate server from PC. Log in to USA system and FTP

from

intermediate to me. All FTP done in strict BINARY mode.

Now the tarball is CCSID 37 on the USA system. But I'm successful
(apparently) in untarring with tar xvf.

However, the untarred files are all CCSID 37. More importantly, they

don't

operate as expected. For example, I usually do this with .JAR files,

and I

invariably end up with complaints from JAVA about the central

directory

being corrupted or some such. I've also tried certain binaries (such

as the

AIX ZIP/UNZIP suite), and those don't run either. The QSH command
"setccsid" doesn't seem to help (although it does set the CCSID of

the

file), and I'm quite confused as to why this would be.

Any pointers?

Dennis Lovelady
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