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Re: c_ifs_open Problem

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7:37 PM Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I specify codepage=1208 I can open the file, but the data is garbage.
If I try anything else like ccsid=1208, or my job ccsid=37, it won't open.

I take it you are trying those as part of the open mode. I'll throw
this out there, just in case: You are defining OpenMode to be long
enough, right? (Some examples out there, including that one from
Simon, and your original version that only had the 'r' and a null
byte, define it to be 5 characters.)

Have you really been having this problem since September of last year?

If you can open the file but get garbage, that's promising. It means
that you just have to figure out the proper code page to use. I'm sure
you can get help with that, especially if you can tell us a few of the
hex values at the beginning of the file (as viewed by EDTF or DSPF
with hex display enabled), and what characters they correspond to.

John Y.

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