RE: CCSID 65535 Translation in Client Access Transfer Requests

["john" <jbussert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey - now your published!

Let me know what the answer is.  I feel an article coming on...

jb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark.stepan@merrillcorp.com [mailto:mark.stepan@merrillcorp.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:36 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: CCSID 65535 Translation in Client Access Transfer Requests
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone out there please clarify this CCSID stuff for me? 
> Here's the
> situation:
> 
> We have a computer that sits in the background and does 
> nothing but file
> transfers between our Novell/NT servers and the 400's. We 
> starting moving away
> from the DOS version of Client Access in favor of the Windows 
> 9x/NT version. I
> came across a nuance that reared its head in the Windows 
> version where the file
> was all in HEX on the NT server pafter a download]. I tracked 
> it down to the
> CCSID translation parameter that appears to reside at the 
> ODBC configuration
> level of the PC as well as at the Transfer Request level. I 
> can't seem to make
> the setting "stick" such that I can put this matter to bed. The other
> alternative is to try and address the files that are created 
> on the 400's to
> make sure that they use CCSID 37 [as they will with a normal 
> DDS file].
> 
> I'm sure anyone that's dealt with this stuff knows what I'm 
> talking about and
> doesn't likely need any more explanation. Any ideas, 
> comments, or suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Mark Stepan
> Technical Support Manager
> Merrill Corporation/St Cloud
> Mark.Stepan@MerrillCorp.com
> 
> 
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