DSXchange

Hi when i tried to export the DS job as .DSX i was able to see the below options
1) DSX
2) DSX 7-bit encoded

can any one please tell me what is the difference between these two?

Thanks & Regards
KB

Just as some of the old mail systems only process 7 bit data, DataStage allows you to create a .dsx file which can be transmitted through such systems. If I recall correctly it uses the same uuencoding algorithm as does sendmail to ensure that all characters can be represented in 7 bits.

It's even simpler than that. Any character over DEL (127) is represented as \nnn where nnn is the ASCII code point for the character.

Thanks for that, Ray. I thought to remember that UUENCODE was used somewhere in the dsx export, perhaps when exporting the binary executables. But I just checked an export file and see that the binaries (at V8) are stored as hex clear texts after all.