Re: Is this a CCSID thing?

This is probably one of many, many scenarios where I feel now I have been
right when I wrote, not so far away, when I asked "Will IBM ever go to
UNICODE". I have seen before my eyes thousand times, the "probable",
"likely" cause that CCSID is a problem.

Seriously, IBM should think big about it. CCSID's issues are a pain in the
spine of everyone.

No one has the right answer. But I can assure that going forward to a
single standard, ALL of these issues will go away forever.

WADR,

JS


El vie, 16 jun 2023 a las 17:34, Peter Dow (<petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>) escribió:

Hi Thomas,

The last thing you want is any translations taking place on an image
catalog.

If you were using FTP, I'd say make sure you're in BINary mode, but it
appears you're using some other method.

If you're using CPY, make sure the FROMCCSID and TOCCSID parameters are
65535 (no translation).

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On 6/16/2023 12:39 PM, tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

We're having trouble getting a virtual tape image from a client, and

don't

know where the problem is.

We've done this ourselves internally from one system to another but both
boxes are the same CCSID.

We had the client (in Latin America) copy the image file from their IFS

to a

thumb drive, and send us the tumb drive.
We then copied the thumb drive file to our IFS.
When we try to add an Image catalog Entry (ADDIMGCLGE) from the image

file

we get

CPIBC01 No Image Catalog Entries
and

CPDBC0C Image file not valid for image catalogs of type *TAP

The image file specified on the FROMFILE parameter is not valid for an

image

catalog of type *TAP



When I look at the CCSID of the original Image file on the client's

server,

it has 819 (Latin-1) as the CCSID.

When it appears on our IFS it has CCSID 1252 (Latin-1 for Windows).
My presumption is that conversion happened when they copied it from their
IFS to the thumb drive on their PC.



Am I way off on this being the problem? If it may be the problem, how do

we

fix it?

Why doesn't the ADDIMGCLGE NOT see it as an image file?



BTW, the default CCSID on our development box is 65535.







Kind Regards,



Thomas Garvey

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