Re: CCSID quandry

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If both program A and program B were compiled using the same CCSID then 
they should match.  As these are constants the job CCSID at run time would 
not come into play, it's the CCSID of when they were compiled.

Bruce Vining




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Folks:

I've got another CCSID problem.

On a system that is set to default CCSID 277 ...

One CL program is calling another ... with a 'variant' character in the
parameter.

For example:

Program a: call pgm(b) parm('#ABCDEF')

Program b: pgm (&parm1)
                                 dcl &parm1 *char (10)
 
                                 if (&parm1 *eq '#ABCDEF') then(do) /* 
something */

The problem is, when program B gets control, and does the comparison,
parm1's value doesn't match the constant.

Obviously the programs were written (and tested) with CCSID 37, where
'#' is a valid character.

My question is: Why don't the two constants in the two programs match
when running under CCSID 37?

Thanks!

david