RE: [WEB400] Is ccsid 65535 cvt to 37 painless?

[Scott Mildenberger <Smildenber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went through and changed it on all our machines and never had any
problems.  We are running JD Edwards on some of our machines as well as many
custom applications.

Scott Mildenberger

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> From: Jim Franz [SMTP:franz400@triad.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:17 PM
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> Subject:      [WEB400] Is ccsid 65535 cvt to 37 painless?
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> I have a customer V4r5 with default ccsid 65535, using
> ftp, CA transfers, async credit card comm using qascii code page
> conversion. Now need to add web cgi. The cgidev2 docs
> strongly suggest changing system to a proper ccsid, and
> is "usually" is painless. I don't have a spare system to test
> that theory.
> Is it truly required? Is it safe?
> I searched the archives and found lots of discussion about ccsid, but
> not really desribing how the change went (if they did it at all).
> Sorry for the post to two lists, but question equally applies.
>