Re: Member text description CCSIDs - 65535 when?

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

For a long time, the system QCCSID value shipped as 65535.

One step in the "Set Up Your System" was to change that, but many did not.

IBM now ships systems with an appropriate default for the primary language
selected.

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM Calvin Buckley <calvin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm developing a tool that works with text descriptions for members,
> calling QUSRMBRD. One thing I noticed is sometimes, the descriptions
> have a CCSID of 65535. For system objects, this tends to be when the
> description is empty. However, some user-made members have the 65535
> CCSID instead of a typical EBCDIC one. I notice these tend to be old
> files too. Might it be the possible description CCSID is new and any
> files from i.e. 36/38 era just get tagged 65535?
>
> As for why I do care about 65535 is while it means no conversion, it
> needs to be converted to UTF-8 for my purposes. I'm assuming it will
> probably be safe to just assume job CCSID; binary data isn't likely.
>
> ~cb
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