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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to convert data from ASCII to Packed Decimal Post 302316490 by methyl on Friday 15th of May 2009 09:24:04 AM
Old 05-15-2009
This would be very difficult in shell but easy in a high level language such as Cobol (pic COMP-3).
Common sense says do the conversion on the Mainframe unless you have the tools on the unix server.
There is much variation in Packed Decimal which is further complicated if you need to generate EBCDIC on the unix server.
Binary-coded decimal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If it is really necessary to do the conversion on the unix server the blunt approach is with a conversion table, though you don't state data volumes or anything about the computers or software involved.
 

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perl::critic::policy::codelayout::requireascii

Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::RequireASCII(3)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	 Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::RequireASCII(3)

NAME

       Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::RequireASCII - Disallow high-bit characters.

AFFILIATION

       This policy is part of Perl::Critic::More, a bleeding edge supplement to Perl::Critic.

DESCRIPTION

       ASCII is a text encoding first introduced in 1963.  It represents 128 characters in seven-bit bytes, reserving the eighth bit for error
       detection.  Perl supports a large number of encodings.  However, if you really want the ultimate in backward compatibility, ASCII is it!
       (We won't even talk about EBCDIC and the like...)

       This policy is not recommended for everyone.  Instead, most of you should probably strive for one of the Unicode encodings for maximum
       forward compatibility.

SEE ALSO

       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii>

       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC>

       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode>

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Chris Dolan

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The full text of this license
       can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2014-06-10			 Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::RequireASCII(3)
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