Re: CCSID - RPG issues

Barbara Morris <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:49:33 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-02-26 8:40 a.m., Birgitta Hauser wrote:
> SQL could always handle single byte and double byte character sets ... and
> UTF-8 correctly. Transformation occurred automatically.
> The problem was always RPG because the data is converted into the Job CCSID.
> BTW what is your Job CCSID? 65535?
> 

He has DATA(*NOCVT) for the file and CCSID(*EXACT) for the data 
structure, so it should not be converting the data to the job CCSID. 
With DATA(*NOCVT), it should get the data correctly even if the job 
CCSID is 65535.

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Barbara

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