Agreed. An external tool will be your best option by far. They are dedicated, tested tiny workhorses that can be implemented quickly. It would be a real PITA to try to do something like this yourself. And, if they add in a character that you were not expecting, you will get unpredictable results.
Something to consider. Ask how it is being done now? I cannot imagine that you are the very first person there to have walked into this landmine. On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Michael Mattias/LS < [email protected]> wrote: > >I need a help in a requirement that has come to me. I would need to > develop a map that converts Mainframe EBCDIC to ASCII. Whats > >the best way to implement >this. I can define a range in syntax token But > how do I replace character by character? any suggestions? > >thanks in advance. > > Crude solutions if you can't find another... > > 1, FTP the data from the EBCDIC maching to the ASCII machine. That will > handle it 'automagically' > > 2. There simply has to be somewhere available free for the download some > kind of "ASCII to EBCDIC" command line utilty program ... > > C:\DOS> Ebd2ASC.exe ebcdic_file ascii_file > > (come to think of it... I think I posted one of those many years ago > myself. Let me check my website real quick... well, how about > that: http://www.talsystems.com/tsihome_html/techcorner.html > > 3. (Emergency only) Ask the mainframe people to handle the character > conversions on their side. > > > Michael C. Mattias > Tal Systems Inc. > Racine WI > [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > ... > Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: > <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> > > Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: > <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
