RE: More Stream File and DBCS issues...

[Kevin Wright <Kevin.Wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad,

FWIW text for CPE3490 is Conversion error. One or more characters could not
be converted from the source CCSID to the target CCSID. 

What is the from CCSID? What is the to CCSID? Are they both DBCS (or more
probably mixed)?

Regards,

Kevin Wright. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2006 2:36 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: More Stream File and DBCS issues...
>
>
> Even more information.
>
> EVERY time it writes DBCS data it returns 3490..  A return
> code perhaps?  :)
>
> Brad
>
> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:43:30 -0500
>  "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I found more information on this doing a debug.  It may
> > or
> > may not relate to my socket CCSID issue I am having.
> >
> > On the call to the write() API, I'm writing out 128
> > bytes.
> >  The return code after the call is saying it wrote 3490
> > bytes.  There are probably 10 DBCS character in this
> > data..
> > the rest is SBCS.  But every write after this, even
> > containing SBCS is corrupted.  And the RC for SBCS data
> > write() calls shows the same amount of bytes written as I
> > told it to write.
> >
> > It's almost like it's totally messing up my pointer
> > position as I am using %addr() for the data parm on the
> > write() API.
> >
> > Any ideas, I'm open ... off to scour the docs now.. 
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:32:16 -0500
> >  "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Ok, this one really is weird.
> > >
> > > I am converting files to different formats.  The data
> > > contains DBCS data and SBCS data.
> > >
> > > We got past the point of making a plain text or .doc
> > file
> > > working (.doc being basically a plain text with CRLF
> > for
> > > the lines).
> > >
> > > Now we're doing PDF.  Which technically should make
> > zero
> > > difference.
> > >
> > > We read the data in (a line of text), then write it out
> > > to
> > > a stream file using the write() API.
> > >
> > > When it hits the line with the DBCS data in it, it just
> > > freaks out and starts writing garbage to the file.
> > >
> > > The ONLY difference in the text we're writing out is it
> > > is
> > > enclosed in ( and ) ends with a single quote.
> > >
> > > I checked the data right before the Write(), checked
> > the
> > > length it was passing in, and everything is fine!  It
> > > writes 12 lines before this one just fine, but once it
> > > hits
> > > the DBCS data, boom.
> > >
> > > Makes no sense to me.  It is PDF data, but it's really
> > > "just plain text".  And all data after it, even straigh
> > > SBCS data is also garbage.
> > >
> > > The only thing I could find was the hex value for the
> > > line
> > > that it starting bombing out on, instead of writing the
> > > real data, it was x'FEFE'
> > >
> > > The only thing I can think of here is a bug in the OS
> > > with
> > > the write() API.
> > >
> > > Anyone else seen anything like this, or have any ideas?
> > >
> > > So:
> > >
> > > eval Data = 'This is DBCS Data'
> > >
> > > if I write just Data, it is fine, even the DBCS data.
> > >
> > > If I do:
> > >
> > > eval Data = '(' + %trimr(Data) + ') '''
> > >
> > > It starts writing just garbage.. and not even the same
> > > length of string garbage.  :)
> > >
> > > Argh  [pulling hair out]
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
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