Allow Gen Toolset to use alternate codepage when applying a checkout.trn

Products

• Gen - Workstation Toolset
• Gen
• Gen - Host Encyclopedia

Issue/Introduction

Have a Checkout.trn with codepage 1256.  How to allow the Toolset to apply the Checkout.trn with codepage 1256 where current codepage is 1252 by default.  The warning/error received is: 

Environment

Release : 8.6

Component :  Gen Workstation Toolset

Resolution

If the goal is to apply the checkout.trn to the Toolset with codepage 1256, then perform the following on the Windows workstation and these steps will allow a checkout/apply of the checkout.trn to the Toolset: 

Changing the Windows codepage:
1. Open Windows Control Panel.
2. Select Region (and Language)
3. Click on the "Administrative" tab.
4. Under Language for non-Unicode programs section, click "Change System Locale" button.
5.  Select the locale (Arabic for 1256).  
Click OK.  (Restart of the workstation is required)

Finally, apply the checkout.trn to the Toolset as codepage 1256, both the checkout.trn file and the workstation Toolset are at 1256 in this scenario.

Alternatively, to apply the checkout.trn to the Toolset where the workstation is codepage 1252 and the checkout.trn is codepage 1256, override the existing checkout of the model/subset and recheck it out with a codepage of your current/default workstation codepage (1252) and then apply the checkout.trn to the Toolset as 1252.  This is done by setting the codepage on the download panel on the Host Ency:

 

Or, by setting the codepage on the IEFDOWN command line entry, if downloading via the command line. Then apply the checkout.trn to your Toolset as 1252 should work. |
Here is the command format, where the CPID is the codepage setting (1252): 
%IEFDOWN MODEL(<'model name'>) SUB(ALL) SOFT(<model schema>) CPID(<destination code page>)

Additional Information

Gen documentation link for Manual Check in and Check out