All: I have a customer with a strange issue, which i believe is a character conversion issue , i need a sanity check to make sure I am looking at the right area. The situation is this:
1. IDM manager sends our LDAP a message 2. In the received message are the userid,pass, etc for RACF 3. The LDAP builds the ADDUSER with the fields fom the input from #1 4. The LDAP then sends the message to our Provisioning Agent on z/OS 5. We then decrypt it, do a ascii-to-ebcdic conversion. The #1 IDM is using codepage 850 Latin 1, the LDAP codepage 437 and the Mainframe has many CCSIDS defined. We use a US table actually an IBM Ascii to EBCDIC table on the mainframe agent. Since we are doing the ascii to ebcdic conversion is it a safe assumption that we dont used the customer Mainframe's CCSIDS ? What we are seeing is a '~' in the middle of a field and according to the charts thats a x'7E'. I did a manual look at the codepages and looks like it would be passed and not converted. The customer is in Italy but I dont think that will place a role based on my dusty memory on conversions. Is my assumption about the '~' correct or did i miss it ? Please i value my colleague's opinions on here. Regards, Scott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
