Re: Data type of "Open"?

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>]

An Open field (type O) is one which can concurrently contain both SBCS and
bracketed DBCS data (bracketed meaing DBCS data bracketed by Shift Out and
Shift In controls).  Other types of fields you may not run into every day
are J - can only contain bracketed DBCS, E - can contain either SBCS or
bracketed DBCS but not both concurrently, G - graphic data without brackets
(can be DBCS or Unicode - UCS2/UTF16).

The help text for IGCDTA indicates that *YES will cause the use of Open
fields.  Can you determine why IGCDTA(*YES) is being used?  Assuming that
it's a program generating CRTPF ... ICGDTA(*YES) one difference between
V5R2 and V5R3 is that the system value QIGC is now always "on" as all
systems can now support DBCS (previously a DBCS version of i5/OS needed to
be installed).  This difference is mentioned in the Memo to Users under
'Changes to system QIGC value'.

Bruce Vining



                                                                           
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I'm on V5R2 and working with a customer on V5R3.

The application in question creates a PF and does a CPYSPLF
to that file.  On V5R2 and previous the field used was of
data type "Char".

On V5R3 it's now showing as a data type of "Open" which is
messing up their SQL statements that they're doing on the
file.

The command being used is:

CRTPF      FILE(QTEMP/TEMPFILE) RCDLEN(134) +
           MBR(*FILE) IGCDTA(*YES) +
           SHARE(*NO) +
           LVLCHK(*NO)

IGCDATA used to be set to *YES or *NO depending on if the
spooled file was DBCS or not, and on V5R3 it seems that
they all are, so this is the only difference I can see.

Any ideas?  What is a data type of "Open"?
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