Re: CCSID - RPG issues

Gad Miron <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Mar 2026 08:36:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
Message-ID <CAFj_=c3idQa7YvqWWuUNS9D6T45KeUJ0hn2kXgX4jnSEAzTJ9g@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Barbara

a simple ds_NMWRKR.ITEMNAME8 = ds_NMMLIMP.ITEMNAME
gets me the same (erroneous)) result.

trying

/charcount NATURAL
ds_NMWRKR.ITEMNAME8 = ds_NMMLIMP.ITEMNAME
/charcount STDCHARSIZE

Plus the required H spec
H CHARCOUNTTYPES(*UTF8 : *JOBRUN)

finally assigned the correct value to ds_NMWRKR.ITEMNAME8
*À la fin de l'été *
00000     C380206C 61206669 6E206465 206C27C3   - C .%/.öù>.ôõ.%.C
00010     A974C3A9 20202020 20202020 20202020   - z Cz............
00020     20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020   - ................
00030     20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020   - ................
00040     20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020   - ................
00050     20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020   - ................
00060     20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020   - ................
00070     20202020 20202020 20202020 20202020   - ................

SO,  SUCCESS !!!  (-:
Many Thanks for seeing it through.

Gad




> I can't guess why it is not getting an exception for the %SUBST with a
> length of 128. The first 2 bytes of ds_NMWRKR.ITEMNAME8 are x'0014'
> which means the current length is 20. Any length for %SUBST greater than
> 20 should fail with RNX0100.
>
> What happens if you just assign ds_NMMLIMP.ITEMNAME ds_NMWRKR.ITEMNAME8
> without %SUBST?
>
> If you don't have CHARCOUNT(*NATURAL) in your control options, you need
> to use the /CHARCOUNT directive to get the data truncated correctly if
> the right-hand-size of the assignment is longer than the left-hand-size.
>
>     /charcount NATURAL
>     ds_NMWRKR.ITEMNAME8 = ds_NMMLIMP.ITEMNAME;
>     /charcount STDCHARSIZE
>
> --
> Barbara
>
>
>
>
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