Re: RPGLE writing to IFS text file unusual translation of single character

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This did not [work] and single quote is now ascii 1A (which
blew the trading partner's process..)
20534149 44205348 45204449 444E1A54 20464545 SAID SHE DIDN T FEE

Hex 1A is the "substitute character", normally used to indicate that a
character is invalid or cannot be displayed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_character

I didn't follow your process too closely; are you saying that you
start with native EBCDIC data on your i, and your program (which has
been in use successfully for years) converts it to ASCII while writing
a stream file?

And then are you saying that this program somehow translated the
EBCDIC x'7D' to ASCII x'1A'?

Also, did you say that in the *same batch*, sometimes the EBCDIC x'7D'
is correctly translated to ASCII x'27'?

John Y.