Character conversion between CCSID 1208 and CCSID 65535 not valid.

[edmundpf]

Character conversion between CCSID 1208 and CCSID 65535 not valid.

[edmundpf]

I have tried setting the CCSID environment variable to '0', '37', '1208', and '65535'

Try updating the CCSID for your User profile with the following CL command.

CHGUSRPRF USRPRF(USER) CCSID(CCSID)

CCSID 37 is valid for United States other English speaking countries
It is possible that your user profile CCSID is currently set to *SYSVAL and the system value is set to 65535.
View the system value with:

WRKSYSVAL SYSVAL(QCCSID)

Thank you I will try this and let you know if this resolves the issue ASAP

This worked, keep in mind for others facing this issue, after you CHGUSRPRF for the user, you may have to log out of shell and back in or restart whatever process uses this for the change to take. Will go ahead and close.

[kadler]

Another option might be to set the SQL_ATTR_NON_HEXCCSID CLI environment attribute. This will change the job CCSID to the default job CCSID if the the job CCSID is 65535. The default job CCSID is guaranteed to be a non-65535 CCSID.

Although idb-connector supports setting attributes, I'm not sure if this one can be set by the user, since it's an environment attribute and thus require a code change in idb-connector. FWIW, in the version of Python ibm_db we ship, we force this on: https://github.com/kadler/python-ibmdb/blob/ibmi/IBM_DB/ibm_db/ibm_db.c#L1492

[abmusse]

I have tried setting the CCSID environment variable to '0', '37', '1208', and '65535'

Try updating the CCSID for your User profile with the following CL command.

CHGUSRPRF USRPRF(USER) CCSID(CCSID)

CCSID 37 is valid for United States other English speaking countries

It is possible that your user profile CCSID is currently set to *SYSVAL and the system value is set to 65535.

View the system value with:

WRKSYSVAL SYSVAL(QCCSID)

[edmundpf]

I have tried setting the CCSID environment variable to '0', '37', '1208', and '65535'

Try updating the CCSID for your User profile with the following CL command.

CHGUSRPRF USRPRF(USER) CCSID(CCSID)

CCSID 37 is valid for United States other English speaking countries

It is possible that your user profile CCSID is currently set to *SYSVAL and the system value is set to 65535.

View the system value with:

WRKSYSVAL SYSVAL(QCCSID)

Thank you I will try this and let you know if this resolves the issue ASAP

[abmusse]

Glad you got this resolved! This is a common issue can read more about why here: http://yips.idevcloud.com/wiki/index.php/IBMi/65535.

[abmusse]

Nice! I think we should do the same in this package given that the CCSID 1208 and CCSID 65535 not valid issue is quite common.

[kadler]

Agreed!