We have clients that use sFTP that was "upgraded" from regular FTP.
The old FTP has a CHGFTPA command where you can set the CCSID of created files. That CCSID is usually 819 but can be other values.
The requirement for the IBM i Environment Variable QIBM_PASE_CCSID to be 1208 causes those sFTP jobs to now create a file as 1208 instead of 819. This causes all kind of issues because the data is being pulled down as ASCII (819) so there are encoding issues which came up once we changed it.
My recommendation is to set that environment variable in the job(s) used by VS CODE instead of requiring it.
ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(QIBM_PASE_CCSID) VALUE('1208') REPLACE(*YES)
This would make sure you've got the correct results while the Customer's keep whatever it is they're using.
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We have clients that use sFTP that was "upgraded" from regular FTP.
The old FTP has a CHGFTPA command where you can set the CCSID of created files. That CCSID is usually 819 but can be other values.
The requirement for the IBM i Environment Variable QIBM_PASE_CCSID to be 1208 causes those sFTP jobs to now create a file as 1208 instead of 819. This causes all kind of issues because the data is being pulled down as ASCII (819) so there are encoding issues which came up once we changed it.
My recommendation is to set that environment variable in the job(s) used by VS CODE instead of requiring it.
This would make sure you've got the correct results while the Customer's keep whatever it is they're using.
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