Re: QDCXLATE not working as expected -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: QDCXLATE not working as expected
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:11:18 -0600
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Schmidt, Mihael wrote:

i tried to convert some EBCDIC data to ASCII. I tried to use QDCXLATE
and the code looks like this:

Just a word of warning about using QASCII & QEBCDIC tables ... some 3rd party vendors routinely advise their customers to alter those tables.

It's burned me a few times.

There is a better API to use that will convert based (I think) on CCSID ... but can't remember what it is off the top of my head.

david

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