RE: What Does 'Descriptor not Valid' mean in an open statement. -- RPG400-L

Change the ccsid of the file and see what you get. I would try 819 and
1252 first. See if one of those makes the file readable.

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Marvin Radding
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 2:03 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the IBM i / System i'
Subject: RE: What Does 'Descriptor not Valid' mean in an open

statement.

Bradley,

Yes the descriptor error was bogus because I did not know that a zero

value

for a file handle was valid.

I tried your suggestion for the open but it was still reading garbage.

This is

very confusing.

Thanks,

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Bradley Stone
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 11:42 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: What Does 'Descriptor not Valid' mean in an open

statement.

Marvin,

Java has nothing to do with file descriptors in RPG.

Reading garbage is an entirely different problem than you had before.

So I

guess I can assume that fixing the IF statement solved your first

problem.

Which was really just a misunderstanding that a descriptor can be zero

(I saw

that problem right away because I did the same thing years ago!)

Now, your NEXT problem is the data reading in is "garbage". In fact,

what

that means is the data isn't translating from the files CCSID to your

jobs

CCSID. Not sure why an IFS file would have a CCSID of 37, though.

If you

plan on using it for anything outside of RPG, I'd change that.

Try opening the file with this instead: (I dug this out from some

notes

somewhere... the example in the sites below may be better) filehandle

open(filepath:O_RDONLY + O_TEXTDATA + O_CCSID:0:0);

There also is a TON of info on this at Scott Klement's site (
https://www.scottklement.com/presentations/RPG%20and%20the%20IFS.p
df for
instance) as well as RPGPGM.com:
http://www.rpgpgm.com/2016/01/read-ifs-file-using-rpg.html

That should get you underway.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 1:23 PM Marvin Radding <
marvin.radding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bradley,

Maybe this will help solve the problem. I found that the descriptor

a Java term and there must be 3 of them open for the default I/O

that

Java has. When I found this I included a single call that uses a

java

routine from Scott's HSSF interface and the open was successful. But
now there is another problem. It is reading garbage. It is supposed

be an ascii file. When I use WRKLNK, I can put a 5 on the file and

displays no problem. But when the program uses read, the line looks
like garbage. The Job's CCSID is 37 and the files attributes say

that

it is CCSID 37. I have no idea what is going on. I made the change
you suggested but the read is still garbage.

Between the descriptor error and this garbage read, I hope someone

can

come up with an explanation of what is happening.

Thanks,

Marvin
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Bradley Stone
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 11:00 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: What Does 'Descriptor not Valid' mean in an open

statement.

Here's what I believe is the problem:

if filehandle <= *zero;

filehandle can be, and probably is zero (since it's the first
descriptor you're probably using to open a file). This should be:

if filehandle < *zero;

or

if filehandle < 0;

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:24 AM Marvin Radding <
marvin.radding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bradley,

Here is the error message:

open file:

/massmutual/rateinc_in/results/lifecare_rate_rnwl_agnt_file_push_201

80
815100
041.dat Descriptor not valid.

And here is the code:

p open_file b
d open_file pi n
d path 254a
d filepath s 256a
d filehandle s 10i 0 inz
filepath = %trim(path) + x'00';
filehandle = open(filepath:O_RDONLY + O_TEXTDATA);
if filehandle <= *zero;
die('open file: ' + %trim(path) + ' ' +

%str(strerror(errno)));

return *on;
else;
return *off;
endif;
return *on;
p open_file e
/eject

Thanks,

Marvin
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