Why do I get an UnsupportedEncodingException when I try to do text conversion in a browser?
If you are doing something like this: AS400Text text1 = new AS400Text(10); byte[] byteArray1 = text1.toBytes(“Some text”); and you are getting this error when running in a browser: Unexpected CCSID returned from getBestGuessAS400Ccsid: 37 java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException at com/ibm/as400/access/ConvTable.getTableNoSwapChars The problem is that browsers do not ship EBCDIC-Unicode conversion tables. JDKs and most JREs ship them but browsers don’t. The Toolbox does conversion by first asking the JVM to do it. Second it looks for a table shipped with the Toolbox, and third it downloads the table from the i5/OS system. If the JVM cannot convert the string, and the Toolbox does not ship the table (it contains mostly double-byte EBCDIC tables that are not practical to download), the Toolbox can download the table from the i5/OS system, but only if the AS400Text object contains an AS400 object. The AS400 object is the only ‘path’ to the i5/OS system, so if AS400Text is not specified with a
