Re: Why are my Open fields getting set with CCSID 937

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/10/2008, at 8:26 AM, sjl wrote:

> Is it because 937 is used instead of 37 when the double-byte  
> version of
> i5/OS (system value QIGC = 1) is installed?

Yes.

You get 937 because it is the default related CCSID for 37 when  
Encoding Scheme 1301 ( Mixed-byte EBCDIC) is used.

Your job is (probably) using 37 even though QCCSID is set to 65535  
(fix that) because:
	a) You've set the job CCSID from the user profile
	b) The system is using the job default CCSID derived from the  
language ID

My memory tells me there is a way to code DDS so it compiles  
character fields as A on SBCS systems and O on DBCS systems. I cannot  
recall whether that is by leaving the Data Type blank (which would  
cause the system to use A or O as appropriate) or by coding O (which  
would cause the system to "magically" convert to A on SBCS systems.  
Given that all versions of OS/400 (since I think VRM520) are DBCS- 
capable it's a moot point anyway.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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