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Garry Hall
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The "implicit conversion" is the same implicit conversion if you use OUTPUT TO "foo.txt". If you don't tell the AVM what the target codepage is, it will use -cpstream. The COPY-LOB statement (and the LONGCHAR itself) has no knowledge that the data in the LONGCHAR is an XML document with an encoding declaration. The document contains the text 'encoding="UTF-8"', but that is just a string of text to the LONGCHAR. COPY-LOB is doing what you asked it to do: copy the LONGCHAR of a given codepage to a file. Since there is no CONVERT TARGET CODEPAGE on your COPY-LOB, it is implicitly converting to -cpstream.
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