IV69020: LIMITATION OF CHANGING CCSID TO 65535 INSIDE OF THE USER PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE DOCUMENTED.

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• It is necessary to document about a limitation and its work
  around.
  
  When the customer executes CHGJOB CCSID(65535) without
  executing CHGJOB  CCSID(37) (or any other CCSID) the job output
  is written with 65535 CCSID and this will fail the cpytostmf
  command moproc launches.
  
  Work around is to modify CCSID back to 37 before ending the
  program.
  1.Start Program
  2.Execute CHGJOB CCSID(65535)
  3.Program BODY
  4.Execute CHGJOB CCSID(37)
  5.End Program
  

Local fix

• n/a
  

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:  Tivoli Workload Scheduler submitting jobs   *
  *                  containing a CHGJOB CCSID(65535) command to *
  *                  an LFTA agent                               *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The job is executed but the joblog      *
  *                      when asked from the master is empty     *
  ****************************************************************
  It has been documented that in case a job executing an IBM i job
  containing a
  CHGJOB CCSID(65535)
  command is created, an instruction like
  CHGJOB CCSID(xxx) has to be added at the end of the IBM i job
  where xxx is any CCSID different from 65535.
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem and the related workaround will be documented in the
  Limited Fault-Tolerant Agent for IBM i manual and in the release
  notes for the following fixpacks
  8.6-TIV-TWS-FP0004,
  9.1-TIV-TWS-FP0002
  9.2-TIV-TWS-FP0002
  9.3-TIV-TWS-FP0001
  

Temporary fix

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