Re: Unicode, %status and *STATUS -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Unicode, %status and *STATUS
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:33:31 -0400
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On 2018-03-25 11:04 AM, Joep Beckeringh wrote:

We're incorporating more Unicode fields in our database. But in some cases we still have to maintain a 5250 user interface to these data. So we want to signal to 5250 users when we encounter untranslatable characters in a field. For that we use program status; status is 50 when conversion results in substitution.

If you add keyword CCSIDCVT(*EXCP) to your H spec, the status code when a conversion results in substitution will be exception-status 452 rather than non-exception status 50.

It might be easier to use MONITOR to deal with an exception rather than checking for status 50.

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