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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ebcidic to ASCII (Packed decimals are there) Post 302858731 by drl on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 08:43:35 AM
Old 10-01-2013
Hi.

A few thoughts:

1) Write a COBOL program to read the records in the native format and write ASCII format.

2) Use perl to convert files, using something like the perl module Convert::IBM390 -- functions for manipulating mainframe data:
Quote:
Convert::IBM390 supplies various functions that you may find useful when working with IBM System/3[679]0 data. No functions are exported automatically; you must ask for the ones you want. "use ... qw(:all)" exports all functions.

By the way, this module is called "IBM390" because it will deal with data from any mainframe operating system. Nothing about it is specific to z/OS, or z/VM, z/VSE, i5/OS, z/TPF....

When transmitting EBCDIC data to your Perl environment via FTP, be sure to use the "binary" option. This will leave the data unconverted so that the module recognizes it. By default, FTP will translate the data to ASCII; this will convert the character fields correctly but garble other formats, such as packed-decimal and binary.
...
unpackeb TEMPLATE RECORD

This function is much like Perl's built-in "unpack". It takes an EBCDIC record (structure) and unpacks it into a list of values. If called in scalar context, it will return only the first unpacked value. The TEMPLATE is patterned after Perl's unpack template but allows fewer options.
-- The CPAN Search Site - search.cpan.org

If you don't want to or cannot write such codes:

3) Google for software or services to help. I think I did a search like that last year, and most of the hits were for proprietary products and services.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl
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