Re: Problem with open in MAILR

I'd be interested in seeing conversions of both AFPDS and SCS with
this new IBM tool. If anyone wants to send some PDF samples, bvstone
at gmail dot come works. :)

Only curious since I've been converting SCS and AFPDS to PDF for years
now and curious as to this code page deal... I allow the user to
select their CCSID and so far had no issues (well, I did with some
DBCS chinese characters, but that was out of my hands...long story)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:11 PM, DeLong, Eric <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Currently, IBM states that a newly created PDF streamfile will be assigned CCSID 65535.  I would presume this means that IBM is translating the text to Unicode before writing it to the streamfile, and that IBM wants to ensure that this PDF document is NOT subject to additional translation.

Just WAG, but seems to make sense to me...  Since this seems to support AFPDS spool files, I would presume that any overlays and such are converted to binary graphics format and embedded within the PDF document structure.  This means the PDF streamfile is NOT a text object, but truly a binary object, and not subject to translation.

-Eric DeLong

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Problem with open in MAILR

Sorry,. Marvin.  I misunderstood.

I see IBM now has this option.  I would think IBM would be the one to
contact for this.  Seems odd they don't let you set the CCSID right
from the command.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Marvin Radding
<marvin.radding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bradley,

The problem is in the CPYSPLF command using the *TOSTMF option with the
*PDF option, not in MAILR. MAILR does not create the object that is to
be attached to the email. I became aware of the problem using that
program.

Does anyone have any idea of how to control the CCSID that CPYSPLF uses
when create a PDF in the IFS?

Thanks,

Marvin

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message: 1
date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:30:06 -0500
from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Problem with open in MAILR

Doesn't it have an option to state the CCSID of the PDF to create?  If
not, and you can find what command it's using to create the stream
file (if it's not native APIs), then maybe you could use CHGCMDDFT to
change the default of that command.  For example, if it's using
CPYTOSTMF.

Just an idea.  Otherwise I'd contact the creators of the command and
ask they put a parameter in to let you specify the CCSID of the PDF
created.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Marvin Radding
<marvin.radding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The value of QCCSID is 37. The job CCSID is 37. So that doesn't seem

to

be the problem.

Marvin

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date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:47:18 -0400
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: Problem with open in MAILR

Several of us, me included, (primarily US operations) have done a
CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QCCSID) VALUE('37')
during the middle of the day and never experienced any ill effect.

?You

may wish to look at the archives for cautions on doing so. ?Follow

this

thread
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201012/msg00099.html

You could try a CHGJOB CCSID(37) prior to the CPYSPLF (recommended by

the

person who expresses caution in another thread).

I think somewhere I read about creating a shell stream file with the
desired ccsid and replacing that versus deleting and recreating it.


Rob Berendt
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From: ? "Marvin Radding" <marvin.radding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ? ? <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: ? 08/23/2011 12:20 PM
Subject: ? ? ? ?Problem with open in MAILR
Sent by: ? ? ? ?midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



We have just upgraded to 7.1 and are playing with the CPYSPLF command
with the *TOSTMF option. I have created *PDF files using this command
and now I have a problem attaching those files to email. Seems that

the

PDF file created has a CCSID of 65535 that the email program abend on
with a Conversion error. I have tried many different options on the

open

API to no avail. ?Is there any way to control the CCSID that the

CPYSPLF

command uses to create the PDF? Or is there a way for the open API to
read a file with a CCSID of 65535 so it can be attached to an email

and

be readable to the recipient.

Thanks ahead of time. This is a great place to learn about the i

Series.

Marvin

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