Re: Issues with code page conversion..grateful for any help

Hi Sean,

with UTF-8 there is no such thing as a codepage anymore - because UTF-8 is short for "Unicode Transfer Format 8 Bit" - so this is full Unicode. 

If you want your file to be written with a specific CCSID, you have to use QSYS2.IFS_WRITE with the FILE_CCSID parameter.

You can also use this function for UTF-8 - that would be FILE_CCSID=>1208 then - as CCSID 1208 would be UTF-8. 

HTH
Daniel


> Am 30.03.2026 um 19:01 schrieb [email protected]:
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> Hello all,
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> I am using “QSYS2.IFS_WRITE_UTF8” to generate a UTF8 Output file.
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> So far so good … I have data with Polish special characters that must be sent with correct CCSID (870)
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> I use
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> EXEC SQL     SET :chr870  = CAST(:myData AS CHAR(100) CCSID 870) to convert my data to CCSID 870 but when I write
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> To my output file the special characters are not written correctly.
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> Any ides on how to write these special characters to UTF8 without losing the code page …
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> I have tried a few things but no success yet…  I am hoping the CCSID guru’s out there have a few ideas for me.
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards / Bien à vous,
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> Sean
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