Re: Reg: Encrypt/Decrypt Image in IBMi

Ob 28.07.2022 at 06:36 <suren7437@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is that ok to move
the Image from a BLOB field into character field? Will this not change the
image data?

Like rpg code -> CharacterField = %trim(Wrk_Image_Data);

Moving BLOB data around with char fields is dangerous, because you may have different CCSIDs.

But it shouldn’t be a problem to pass Wrk_Image_Data directly to the API as it is in fact a char subfield of the Wrk_Image data structure that is created for the BLOB type.

You also already have to size of the BLOB data in Wrk_Image_Len (AFAIK in octets/bytes).

HTH - and please show off your code when done, so others can find the solution in the mailing list archive.

Kind regards,
Daniel