Code page and CCSID

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Published: 23 Feb 2014
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Code page and CCSID Published by: AmitAS400 on 23 Feb 2014 view comments(3)

Hi ,

I am new into RPG World and learning new things step by step .I have been working on various assingment related to IFS . So every time i start working with IFS i got struck with these two things : CODEPAGE , CCSID . So we need to give our program various hit trail before it's ready for final testing .

It would be grateful if anyone can provide some thought on these two topic .

Thanks

amit

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Posted by: bobcozzi

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Posted: 9 years 6 months 29 days 19 hours 11 minutes ago

Codepage is old, use CCSID

Posted by: Ringer

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Posted: 9 years 6 months 29 days 17 hours 7 minutes ago

By IFS, do you mean the "big PC hard drive" (the ROOT system)? If so, then two popular values are 1252 (Windows) and 819 (Latin-1). Here is a tutorial on using the IFS with RPG http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs_ebook/ifs_ebook.pdf .

Chris Ringer

Posted by: DaleB

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Comment on: Code page and CCSID
Posted: 9 years 6 months 28 days 19 hours 22 minutes ago

If you're not doing anything terribly fancy, just reading or writing, you can let the system take care of conversion for you. With the Unix-type IFS APIs, the 2nd parameter on open() is oflag, which is really a set of bit flags. If you turn on O_TEXTDATA, then the API will convert to or from the file's CCSID to your program's CCSID (which is normally EBCDIC). You just need to make sure the CCSID of the *STMF matches what is really in the file.