Technically, STMFCODPAG(*PCASCII) could help given the condition that the data that is in the source data file is already encoded as CCSID 1252 which is what *PCASCII ought to provide. If it’s CCSID 1252 data stored as CCSID 65535, then it would still be CCSID data 1252 after the copy. The encoding wouldn’t change.

Tom

STMFCODPAG(*PCASCII) will not make any difference. A streamfile code page is already specified, but it doesn’t matter because source data file is defined as 65535. The data will not be translated because 65535 is not supposed to translate. The encoding doesn’t translate to STMFCODPAG(285) and it doesn’t translate to STMFCODPAG(*PCASCII).

65535 doesn’t translate, by definition.

I’m not sure wht the source data file was created as 65535; but since it was, the things to try first are (1) put the data into a file that has the appropriate CCSID for the data; and then copy that file into your IFS streamfile, and (2) specify the appropriate FROMCCSID() parameter value on the CPYTOIMPF command.

If those don’t work, then we can try more things. But there is no reason to try anything else until we know if either of those will work.

Tom

The file PB has a mix of numneric and char fields and all the char fields only have CCSID 65535,as numeric fileds do not have any ccsid.
Both the files are externally described files with DDS defined.

Sanjay

Is this a ‘program-described’ file that actually has just a single field? Substrings might represent ‘numeric’ or ‘character’ “fields” in that case.

Tom

Numeric fields don’t have a CCSID.

Tom

PB file has mix of numeric + char fields with CCSID as 65535,and further we are mering both these files in one text file to view in IFS.

That CCSID is used when you don’t want the encoding to be translated. By definition, BIN815PB is a binary file.

When the bytes are copied into the IFS streamfile, they are not converted to code page 285.

If you need the encoding to be translated, put the data into a file that has the appropriate CCSID for the data; and then copy that file into your IFS streamfile. Or specify the appropriate FROMCCSID() parameter value on the CPYTOIMPF command.

You might get the appropriate CCSID by running RTVJOBA DFTCCSID() and using the value from that.

Tom