Non-Standard EBCDIC -> ASCII translation

[gsherry1]

ArndW,

Thank you for your response.

I understand how I can use your routine from Job Control and open up a file and convert strings at specified offsets.

However, I think your proposed solution was suggesting that this routine be called from a transformer. Since you proposed a BASIC routine, were you suggesting I call these from the BASIC transformer in an SMP environment?

Also, would I not have to do something to prevent DataStage from already performing it's default translation when the Sequential File/CFF is used to parse the file? I guess I would have to set the PIC X fields on my CFF to some other datatype to prevent any translation before the BASIC transformer.



- Greg

[ArndW]

Remove my post - I wasn't paying attention to the PX/Server forum flag. The code would be quite similar in C++ should you wish to put in your own code.

[ray.wurlod]

Unfortunately, 7.5X2 does not support NLS.

I am currently running 7.5x2 with NLS enabled.

[gsherry1]

I am currently running 7.5x2 with NLS enabled.

That's very interesting to hear Ray.

Both vendor support and the Enterprise Edition for Windows documentation recommended not installing it:

Do not check the NLS install box. NLS is not supported with the 7.5x2 release of DataStage Enterprise Edition on Windows.

Have you encountered any strange behavoir as a result of installing or using NLS? Did you had to perform any extra tweaking to get it working?

- Greg

[ray.wurlod]

To be honest, I have not processed any non-English data with it. But there was some investigation I wanted to do with maps and locales. They seem to come up and load OK using default locations. Here's the message from the event log.
DataStage information message: Shared memory addresses: Disk=0x08000000, Printer=0x09000000, NLS=0x0A000000, Catalog=0x0B000000.
and
DataStage information message: 14 NLS Character Set Maps loaded in 109732 bytes.