Re: Can CCSID cause this? -- MIDRANGE-L

Changing QCCSID from 65535 to a non-65535 value can have impacts to a
system depending on how applications/databases on the system are set up.

As an example, since most jobs on the system grab their job CCSID from this
system value you may have inadvertently turned on CCSID conversion
processing when accessing your database files (which may cause problems if
you're really trying to treat the FTP data as hex but don't have it tagged
as such though this is just a guess).  Making this type of change usually
takes some upfront analysis of your system.

Bruce



                                                                                
                                                       
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Yesterday I downloaded the CGIDEV2 from IBM and installed it this
morning.  As part of the install it said the system value QCCSID could
not be 65535 or it wouldn't work.  The README said "No impact to
existing production."  Ours was 65535 so I changed it to 37 and
restarted the HTTP server per the instructions.  (We have no web site.)

About that same time orders that are transmitted from our salespeople
stopped being processed properly.  What is supposed to happen is the
order is FTPed from a W2K Server PC to the iSeries, a REXEC is fired off
to process the order, and the results are FTPed back to the W2K Server.
What actually happened is the order would be FTPed to the iSeries and
not processed.  It's as if the REXEC was never fired.  But the job
_must_ have been fired because there are begin/end entries in the system
log, but no job log.  And I could fire them off manually at the command
line and they would be processed.

Finally I just ended the HTTP server, changed the CCSID back to 65535,
and rebooted the W2K Server.  After that, now all is well.

Could my changing the CCSID have caused this?  It sure seems like more
than coincidence, but I need smarter brains than mine to figure it out.

I will be out this afternoon, but checking email throughout the weekend.
  Thanks.

--
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.



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