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by **wkee..** » Fri, 13 Feb 1998 04:00:00

1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert EBCDIC
data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM mainframe in
EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix. We used FTP, but the zoned decimal fields did
not convert properly.

2. Are there any services/packages to convert VM and MVS tapes (EBCDIC)
to ASCII for Unix? This could utilize any media-tapes, cds, etc. Most of
the VM tapes have been created via the VMBACKUP utility.

Thanks for any help!

by **Lynda L. Tru** » Fri, 13 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> 1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert
> EBCDIC data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM
> mainframe in EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix.

Try using dd (man dd for args and such). Look esp at the args for
"conv", where "ascii" converts from ascii to ebcdic.

Quote:
> 2. Are there any services/packages to convert VM and MVS tapes
> (EBCDIC) to ASCII for Unix? This could utilize any media-tapes, cds,
> etc. Most of the VM tapes have been created via the VMBACKUP utility.

dd actually was meant to work with tapes.

Good luck.

Quote:
> Thanks for any help!

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by **Steve Lunne** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> 1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert EBCDIC
> data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM mainframe
> in EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix. We used FTP, but the zoned decimal fields
> did not convert properly.

There are methods to do this. However I am confused by your use of the
term zoned decimal. I am unsure if by this you are meaning BCD (Binary
Coded Decimal) If you are then I can help you. Rather than post code to
this newsgroup I shall e-mail you some sample code (Written in Solaris
2.5.1 using cc).

Steve

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> Thanks for any help!

by **Cameron Simpso** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

| 1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert EBCDIC
| data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM mainframe in
| EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix. We used FTP, but the zoned decimal fields did
| not convert properly.
| 2. Are there any services/packages to convert VM and MVS tapes (EBCDIC)
| to ASCII for Unix? This could utilize any media-tapes, cds, etc. Most of
| the VM tapes have been created via the VMBACKUP utility.

If you can isolate the EBCDIC data then the "dd" command will do it.
Check out the "conv=" option.

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| Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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by **Aleksandar Milivojevi** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> 1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert EBCDIC
> data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM mainframe in
> EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix. We used FTP, but the zoned decimal fields did
> not convert properly.

Look at GNU recode program. It can convert text between varius
encodings (including EBCDIC, ASCII, ISO 8859-* and many others).

As others sugested dd can also convert between EBCDIC and ASCII.

Quote:> 2. Are there any services/packages to convert VM and MVS tapes (EBCDIC)
> to ASCII for Unix? This could utilize any media-tapes, cds, etc. Most of
> the VM tapes have been created via the VMBACKUP utility.

Depends on the format of files on tape. Maybe you will be able to do
it with dd, maybe not.

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by **Vincent Smeet** » Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> 1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert EBCDIC
> data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM mainframe
> in EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix. We used FTP, but the zoned decimal fields
> did not convert properly.

> 2. Are there any services/packages to convert VM and MVS tapes
> (EBCDIC) to ASCII for Unix? This could utilize any media-tapes, cds,
> etc. Most of the VM tapes have been created via the VMBACKUP utility.

Have you already been looking at "dd"?

dd conv=ascii ......

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by **Andrew Rowl** » Sun, 15 Feb 1998 04:00:00

>1. Are there any utilities/programs/packages/methods to convert EBCDIC
>data to ASCII data? We are converting data created on a VM mainframe in
>EBCDIC to ASCII for Unix. We used FTP, but the zoned decimal fields did
>not convert properly.

>2. Are there any services/packages to convert VM and MVS tapes (EBCDIC)
>to ASCII for Unix? This could utilize any media-tapes, cds, etc. Most of
>the VM tapes have been created via the VMBACKUP utility.

>Thanks for any help!

I'm not sure whether you really mean zoned decimal or packed decimal.
Either way they are not actually EBCDIC data but binary
representations of data commonly used on EBCDIC systems. Zoned decimal
is however quite close to the EBCDIC representation of the number.
You will have a hard time finding a simple translation program to
translate these, as it is not a simple 1 to 1 character translation as
it is for text. You need to know the layout of the fields in your
data.
I suspect you will need to write a program to do this. It would be
easier to do this on the origin system if possible (in this case the
program should be trivial.)
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