Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't iconv do the job?
The question is more like, how to convert the ASCII text 0xFFFF into a binary number. The text is ASCII, but the value it represents is binary. Packed decimals are kind of like that, encoded in a special BCD-ish IBM manner that's neither plaintext nor binary as it's usually done.
The sticking point is, they often end up in the middle of EBCDIC streams which look like text files but are really fixed-size database records completely lacking in metadata. Very COBOL-ish. Very IBM. And not actually a text file. dd or iconv can't generate a sensible result from
So, there isn't any generic code to convert a text stream out of packed decimal, and can't be. You have to read the data in a structured way and know which bits to convert and how.
This is usually the point where we ask for the necessary sample of data, OP refuses, and the thread dies.
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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.
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we have source file with EBCDIC format(Main Frame files) where we receving from source system.
I would like to convert the EBCDIC format file to unix systemformat(ex: .csv,txt )
I have wrote script like:
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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)
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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)
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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)
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I was searching through web and found only conversion table :(
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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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urlcoding
URLCODING(3) libbash urlcoding Library Manual URLCODING(3)NAME
urlcoding -- a Libbash library for encoding and decoding URL's.
SYNOPSIS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
urlEncodeStream [-l]
urlDecodeString <STRING>
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
urlDecodeStream
DESCRIPTION
urlcoding is a collection of functions that convert ASCII-text to standard URL's and vice-versa. The AWK code used is based on code by Heiner
Steven <heiner.steven@odn.de>
The function list:
urlEncodeString Creates a URL from an ASCII string
urlEncodeFile Converts a file into URL-valid text
urlEncodeStream Converts standard input into URL-valid text
urlDecodeString Converts a URL-encoded text back to a plain-text form
urlDecodeFile Coverts URL-encoded text in a file back to plain text
urlDecodeStream Converts URL-encoded standard input to text
Detailed interface description follows.
The [-l] option for the encoding functions should be used when line-feed characters ('
') are to be encoded as well.
All functions print the results of their conversions to standard output.
The exit status of all functions is that of the command 'awk', with '0' for success
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
Converts STRING - a string of ASCII characters - to URL.
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
Coverts FILE of URL-encoded text to plain text
urlEncodeStream [-l]
Converts text from standard input to URL-text.
urlDecodeString <STRING>
Converts URL-encoded string STRING back to text.
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
Converts the URL-encoded text in FILE to plain text.
urlDecodeStream
Converts the URL-encoded text from standard input to plain-text
AUTHORS
Alon Keren <alon.keren@gmail.com>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux