Re: Generating text based IFS file with SQL

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

If it's character data...why a binary large object (BLOB) instead of a
character large object? (CLOB)..


I'd expect the CLOB() function with the optional 3rd parm of CCSID would be
able to convert from ebcdic to ASCII...

Alternatively, if the output IFS file exists and is tagged as ASCII, the
system might convert automatically.

Charles


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Darren Strong <darren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm playing around with generating a text based IFS file as shown below,
> from an example I received a few years ago.  The issue I had then, and am
> still having now, is that I'd like the resulting IFS file, copied from a
> source member in this case as a test, to be ASCII, rather than EBCDIC
> (sp?).  Does anyone know a way to control the conversion differently?
>
>       //****************************************************************
>       // Definition Specifications
>       //****************************************************************
>        dcl-s FromBLOB SQLTYPE(BLOB_File);
>        dcl-s ToBLOB SQLTYPE(BLOB_File);
>        dcl-s IFSFile varchar(256) inz('/home/darren/BLOBFILE.txt');
>        dcl-s FromFile varchar(256)
>            inz('/QSYS.LIB/DARREN.lib/QRPGLESRC.file/TSTIFS.mbr');
>       //****************************************************************
>       // Begin Calculation Specifications
>       //****************************************************************
>        *InLR = *On;
>
>        FromBLOB_Name=%trim(FromFile);
>        FromBLOB_NL=%len(%trim(FromBLOB_Name));
>        FromBLOB_FO=SQFRD;
>
>        toBLOB_Name=%trim(IFSFile);
>        toBLOB_NL=%len(%trim(toBLOB_Name));
>        toBLOB_FO=SQFOVR;
>
>        exec sql set :toBLOB=:FromBLOB;
>
>        return;
>
>
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