01-27-2015
OK. So your data is NOT EBCDIC; it is some kind of "abinition" or "abinitio graph" (whatever they are) record format. Presumably the string fields were correctly converted by the dd command, but the date and decimal fields were not. I have no idea how "abinition" or "abinitio" encode data stored in date or decimal fields, but from your very poor description of what dd did, we have to assume that they are not encoded as EBCDIC strings.
Without a clear description of the format of your input file, it will be difficult to convert your data to ASCII. Furthermore, shell scripts are not generally well suited to performing conversions on arbitrary binary data intermixed with character data.
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NAME
_encodedecimal64(), _encodedecimal128(), _encodedecimal32() - encode decimal-encoded decimal data
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
There are two standard bit-encodings for decimal floating-point data: binary and decimal. Both encoding provide exactly the same data
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RETURN VALUE
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ERRORS
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SEE ALSO
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