Problem converting ASCII to EBCDIC with asciinpe

ITEM: RTA000155139

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Origin item: 05411,998,838                                                      
Topic thread:                                                                   
Printer Systems (PRINT - NA/ATS)                                                
 PSF/AIX                                                                        
  PRINT XPSF6000                                                                
                                                                                
Question:                                                                       
One of our PSF/AIX customers is printing  line data files (ASCII),              
using a jobscript, with a Pagedef, Formdef, Fonts and the Transform             
Program asciinpe and everything works  OK.  Now he wants to                     
include in the printout a hexadecimal stream generated by a routine             
which has to be printed with an special Bar Code Font. As the                   
jobscript makes the asciinpe transformation, the Bar Code doesn't               
print because the hexa chars are also transformed and if we don't              
use the Transform Program the line data file doesn't print at all.              
If we submit a file with the hexa chars and the Bar Code Font with a            
jobscript in which we say type of data=line data and NO Transform               
Program is called, the Bar Code is printed OK.                                  
                                                                                
To avoid using the Transform Program, we've tried to change the                 
Code Page of the Code Fonts (X0C42100C, X044100C) used to                       
print the data  file to an ASCII Code Page (T1000850) and we get                
messages from PSF saying it has detected channel 39 and 41 in                   
the file which makes any sense because there are not such                       
channels in the file.                                                           
                                                                                
Is there any way of preserve those hexa chars to be transformed?                
Or can you tell us in which new hexa chars is this Transform                    
Program converting  the original ones?                                         
Is there any way of printing the line data file without using the               
Transform Program?                                                              
Or, can you tell us how this program transforms each hexa char                  
                                                                                
A:                                                                              
There are a number of libraried WWQ&A/ViewBlue items that discuss               
this topic.  Please review RTA000049603, RTA000090052, RTA000102511,            
RTA000152972, and RTA000154504, then reopen if you have additional              
questions.                                                                      
                                                                                
Thanks for using ViewBlue.                                                      
                                                                                
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:                                                  
psf/6000 psf/aix infoprint acif line2afp ascii ebcdic asciinpe                  
apka2e iconv transform convert psf aix ipmgr ipm                               



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Dated: 12/1999 Category: XPSF6000

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