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  3. February 2017

Re: ERROR 3490 (ECONVERT; "Conversion Error") on an IFS open???

On 6 February 2017 at 17:06, James H. H. Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Found something else:

It seems that on the system where this program is failing, the STMF we're
opening is CCSID 1208.

On another box where it works just fine, the STMF is CCSID 819.

1208 is UTF-8, 819 is PC ASCII.

I decoded the MODE parameter, BTW, and it's O_RDONLY + O_TEXTDATA, with
neither O_CODEPAGE nor O_CCSID.

O_TEXTDATA means 'this is text - convert it between the source and
destination'.

From the manual (which I grant is quite something to slog through):

If O_CCSID is not specified, and the file CCSID and open CCSID are not
the same, and one of them is not strictly single-byte, open() will
fail with errno set to [ECONVERT].

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/open.htm
Using CCSIDs and code pages


Since 1208 is not strict SBCS, boom.
Can you post the open() statement? Specifically, what's in the fourth
parameter (conversion ID)?

--buck

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