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| wbintegrator |
 Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: Cast blob to char: ebcdic to ascii |
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Voyager
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
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I have a problem trying to cast an ebcidic message from IMS to ascii.
I've tried a row of CCSID-s 819,916,1208 etc but nothing worked.
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| DECLARE imsMsg CHAR CAST(InputBody.BLOB AS CHAR CCSID 916); |
In case u wonder why I need the IMS message: whenever a mainframe procedure terminates abnormally or if theIMS is shutting down, it keeps sending messages notifying of that and the users have no way to know it as the exception handling I have doesn't "know" to identify this cases. So I'm trying to identify these cases by parsing the IMS messages.
Thanks in advance. |
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| fschofer |
| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| wbintegrator |
| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Voyager
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37 did the job,
Thanks a lot frank. |
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| wbintegrator |
| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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Voyager
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By the way, The reason I couldn't cast it using other CCSIDs turned out to be the '00' in the beginning of the BLOB. Apparently there is some C/C++ processing of the string during the cast, and the null terminateion-oriented processing failed at the very beginning of the string.
I replaced all the X'00' with X'40' and the cast worked. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Grand High Poobah
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I would have tried to use InputRoot.BLOB.BLOB in the cast command...
That might take care of your hex 00 problem?
Another way to try it (if it is not a reply node) is to set the convert flag on the input node.
Enjoy 
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Grand Poobah
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
I would have tried to use InputRoot.BLOB.BLOB in the cast command...
That might take care of your hex 00 problem? |
InputBody is a synonym for InputRoot.BLOB... so InputRoot.BLOB.BLOB is the same as InputBody.BLOB.
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