Re: Is this a CCSID thing?

Hello Thomas,

Am 16.06.2023 um 21:39 schrieb tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx:

We had the client (in Latin America) copy the image file from their IFS to a thumb drive, and send us the tumb drive.

How exactly did they do this copy process? FTP? Probably used mode ASCII (which is WRONG for binary files like any image file)?

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).

That should only matter if the characters being used for the images themselves are outside the usual OS/400 naming restrictions.

But the error message is that the *image file* is not valid for a *TAP catalog. There's no mentioning about the catalog itself (which can be rebuilt moderately easily anytime, anyway).

I bet they used FTP for transfer and this garbled the contents of the image files so it can't be recognized as an image file by IBM i anymore.

Also, see Peter Dow's answer.

:wq! PoC