Publication Service - Encoding Tab

The Encoding tab is available for both Record Transfer mode and Simple File Transfer mode.

The Encoding tab contains the following fields:
Field Description
File System Encoding Provides aliases for the following commonly used encoding for file and directory names: ASCII, ISO8859-1, UTF-8, Shift JIS (CP943), Shift JIS (TIBCO), EUC-JP, Big5, and Other.

When you select Other, you can enter an encoding string that is not present in the list. For a list of encoding strings, see TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win Concepts.

Note: When an invalid or unsupported encoding value is specified, an error occurs at run time.

The default option is UTF-8, and only the default option is supported.

File System Encoding Other This field is available only when you select Other in the File System Encoding list. Enter an encoding string that is not present in the list. For a list of encoding strings, see TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win Concepts.
Note: The supported option for the File System Encoding field is UTF-8, so you cannot enter value for this field.
File Content Encoding Provides aliases for the following commonly used encoding for file contents: ASCII, ISO8859-1, UTF16_BigEndian, UTF16_LittleEndian, UTF-8, Shift JIS (CP943), Shift JIS (TIBCO), EUC-JP, Big5, and Other.

If you want to transfer a file in ASCII encoding between open systems in Simple File Transfer mode, select ASCII from the File Content Encoding field.

If you want to transfer a file in ASCII encoding between an open system and a mainframe system in Simple File Transfer mode, select ISO8859-1 from the File Content Encoding field.

When you select Other, you can enter an encoding string that is not present in the list. For a list of encoding strings, see TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win Concepts.

The File Content Encoding option is unavailable when you select Simple File Transfer mode in the Configuration tab and select Binary from the File Transfer Mode list in the SFT tab.

Note: When an invalid or unsupported encoding string value is specified, an error is displayed at run time.
File Content Encoding Other This field is available only when you select Other in the File Content Encoding list.
Note: By default, the repository encoding is ISO-8859-1. When the file system or file content encoding is set to any encoding other than ASCII or ISO-8859-1, you have to set the repository encoding to UTF-8. If the repository encoding field is not set correctly, messages might be corrupted.
End of Line Select the method according to how the lines in the input file are separated.
  • System

    Uses a carriage return (new line) to mark the end of a line.

  • User Defined

    Uses custom end of line characters to mark the end of a line.

    Note: Currently, no facility is provided to distinguish custom end of line characters that are not actual characters.
  • System and User Defined

    Uses a combination of carriage returns and custom characters to mark the end of a line.

User Defined EOL This field is available only when the End of Line field is not System. Enter the characters to mark the end of a line.
Note: The End of Line and User Defined EOL fields are unavailable when the transfer mode is Simple File Transfer.