When a ZIP file contains 'EFBBBF'x, a byte-order-mark(BOM), in the first three bytes of the file, the FILENAME statement with the ZIP access engine does not read the file properly. Those three bytes are read as data, so the output value of the first variable is not correct.

To circumvent this issue, complete either of the following two workarounds to read the file properly:

• Use the FILENAME statement with the PIPE option. This method enables you to specify operating system commands, so you should specify the UNZIP command along with the individual file within the ZIP file.
  
       filename in_zip PIPE "unzip -p /a/b/c/d/dir/test.zip myfile.txt" ;
  
  
• Specify the desired file, within the ZIP file that you want to read, on an INFILE statement.
  
  

       infile '/a/b/c/d/dir/myfile.txt' dsd truncover ;