EBCDIC is a codeset; not a format.
Two common utilities to convert from EBCDIC to ASCII or UTF-8 are
(you can use iconv -l to get a list of fromcode and tocode values for your system), and
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Hi All,
I am facing EBCDIC to ASCII Binary conversion on Solaris i-series Unix system.
However this is working fine on Solaris Sparc Unix system.
Input file having EBCDIC format does not work on Solaris i-series Unix system.
Could you please tell me, what will be the root cause for same? (14 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a 70MB EBCDIC file, with record length 102, block size 32742 and IBM standard label.
I commanded
dd if=input file of=outputfie ibs=32742 cbs=102 conv=ascii
but I still don't get a viewable file under ASCII.
Can anyone told me what's the problem?
Do I need... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I want to convert ebcdic values to ascii values. Are there anyany specific c++ libraries with g++ compiler, which can do it ?
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54) (0 Replies)
Hi,
I want to convert ebcdic values to ascii values. Are there anyany specific c++ libraries with g++ compiler, which can do it ?
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54) (19 Replies)
Hi All ,
I have a mainframe file which contains the data in EBCDIC unreadable format.I have downloaded this raw unreadable file from mainframe system to windows in text format then I pushed to Unix system.Now I want to convert this file to ASCII readable format file in unix.Can anyone advise me... (2 Replies)
Hi All ,
We have a mainframe file which is in EBCDIC format.We dont have direct access to mainframe ,client has provided us the mainframe file in unix box.The mainframe file is containing pact data(COMP1 ,COMP2 etc) which are unreadble.Can anyone suggest me how to convert this kind of ebcdic... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a input file which is EBCIDIC and it has packed decimals.
Can anyone help me to convert EBCIDIC file to ASCII(Need to convert even Packed decimal values also to normal format).
Thanks
swapna (12 Replies)
Hi,
We have a mainframe file which is in EBCDIC format.We dont have direct access to mainframe ,client has provided us the mainframe file.The mainframe file is containing pact data(COMP1 ,COMP2 etc) which are unreadble.Can anyone suggest me how to convert this kind of ebcdic file to ascii... (11 Replies)
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iconv_open
ICONV_OPEN(3) Linux Programmer's Manual ICONV_OPEN(3)NAME
iconv_open - allocate descriptor for character set conversion
SYNOPSIS
#include <iconv.h>
iconv_t iconv_open(const char *tocode, const char *fromcode);
DESCRIPTION
The iconv_open function allocates a conversion descriptor suitable for converting byte sequences from character encoding fromcode to char-
acter encoding tocode.
The values permitted for fromcode and tocode and the supported combinations are system dependent. For the GNU C library, the permitted val-
ues are listed by the iconv --list command, and all combinations of the listed values are supported.
The resulting conversion descriptor can be used with iconv any number of times. It remains valid until deallocated using iconv_close.
A conversion descriptor contains a conversion state. After creation using iconv_open, the state is in the initial state. Using iconv modi-
fies the descriptor's conversion state. (This implies that a conversion descriptor can not be used in multiple threads simultaneously.) To
bring the state back to the initial state, use iconv with NULL as inbuf argument.
RETURN VALUE
The iconv_open function returns a freshly allocated conversion descriptor. In case of error, it sets errno and returns (iconv_t)(-1).
ERRORS
The following error can occur, among others:
EINVAL The conversion from fromcode to tocode is not supported by the implementation.
CONFORMING TO
UNIX98
SEE ALSO iconv(3), iconv_close(3), iconv(1)GNU 1999-11-27 ICONV_OPEN(3)