ASCII-EBCDIC conversion

Hello,
I am looking for a tool which can convert from ASCII to EBCDIC (firstly) and
from EBCDIC to ASCII.
(I should store some columns in EBCDIC because some COBOL program should read it.)
Regards,
Laszlo

Thank you !
But how can i use the other character sets instead of the common ?
May I load into the database ?
For example:
create table OIT015
ENTSTAMP TIMESTAMP(6) not null,
ORDNR NUMBER(11) not null,
ORDERDATEN VARCHAR2(3800) not null
tablespace PLINK_HBCI
pctfree 10
pctused 40
initrans 1
maxtrans 255
storage
initial 64K
minextents 1
maxextents unlimited
insert into OIT015 (ENTSTAMP, ORDNR, ORDERDATEN)
values (to_timestamp('11-11-0011 11:11:11.000011', 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss.ff'), 2, 'X');
update oit015 set orderdaten=convert('00000396375160','WE8EBCDIC500') where ordnr=2
commit;
My collegues wrote the same data with COBOL program into test table in EBCIDIC.
There is the result:
select dump(t.orderdaten,16), t.* from oit015 t
0,0,3,96,37,51,60,c 11.11.11 11:11:11.000011 1111111111
f0,f0,f0,f0,f0,f3,f9,f6,f3,f7,f5,f1,f6,f0 11.11.11 11:11:11.000011 2 ?????óuöó÷onö?
My collegues said that 'WE8EBCDIC500' is special display format on mainframe.

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<<text removed>>
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We have JDE system as source to bring data into BW. Howvever the format of the data is in EBCDIC and the data looks junk with out converting the same to ASCII.
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Anybody here solved any of the issues of using Java on
an MVS mainframe (running zOS in fact)?I haven't done that but some of the questions you ask are OS-independent, I think.
* Editing (square brackets)You are trying to edit on a zOS keyboard which doesn't have []? Then do your editing on a PC, which does.
* Uploading .java and/or .class files from NTIf you are using FTP, make sure you use the Binary or Image option for uploading .class files. You want to avoid any ASCII-EBCDIC conversion. Probably the same for .java, but I don't know the details there.
* Running within CICS - is there a 3270 display
option?
* Any other useful tidbits you know aboutSorry.

Re: Code convert ascii to EBCDIC

At 09:06 PM 8/13/97 +0900, Isao Yamada wrote:
I am trying conversion ascii-to-EBCDIC conversion.You didn't mention the platform, but if it is Unix, I would just pipe the
input through the dd command. Even if this is a Win32 platform, I would
consider buying the Win95 toolkit from Ready-to-Run and using the dd
command in it.
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Isao,
You can convert arbitrary binary data
using MemoryStream, ReadBinary(), pointers
and casting to convert simple binary types to the
type you require. Here is a partial code fragment
from some binary communications code we wrote
to give you the idea. Although it looks like
'C' in places it really is valid TOOL code.
buf : MemoryStream = new;
theHeader : MemoryStream = new;
theData : MemoryStream = new ;
tempData : BinaryData = new ;
countBytes : integer = 0 ;
tempcountBytes : integer = 0 ;
ConnId : ui2 = 0 ;
magicNumber : ui4 = 0x5aa50ff0 ;
p : pointer = nil;
buf.Open(accessMode = SP_AM_READ_WRITE);
theHeader.Open(accessMode = SP_AM_READ_WRITE);
// Read the header
theHeader.Flush() ;
theHeader.Seek( position = SP_RP_START ) ;
countBytes = 0 ;
// Parse theHeader here
theHeader.Seek( position = SP_RP_START ) ;
theHeader.ReadBinary( target = tempData, length = 4 ) ;
p = (pointer)(tempData.Value) ;
PacketLength = *(pointer to ui4)(p) ;
theHeader.ReadBinary( target = tempData, length = 1 ) ;
p = (pointer)(tempData.Value) ;
PacketType = *(pointer to ui1)(p) ;
theHeader.ReadBinary( target = tempData, length = 2 ) ;
p = (pointer)(tempData.Value) ;
PacketSeqNo = *(pointer to ui2)(p) ;
theHeader.ReadBinary( target = tempData, length = 2 ) ;
p = (pointer)(tempData.Value) ;
ConnId = *(pointer to ui2)(p) ;
theHeader.ReadBinary( target = tempData, length = 4 ) ;
p = (pointer)(tempData.Value) ;
magicNumber = *(pointer to ui4)(p) ;
if( magicNumber != 0x5aa50ff0 ) then
buf.Close() ;
theHeader.Close() ;
return FALSE ;
end if ;
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Hi! Everyday I read some useful tips from this mailing-list.
I am trying conversion ascii-to-EBCDIC conversion.
I want to read binary-file, because EBCDIC code data come by floppy-disk.
But I can't read this file into TextData object.
(TextData Class have method to access by byte.)
I know that I can read binary-data into BinaryData object.
if I can access BinaryData class by byte or read binarydata into textdata.
Does anyone have good idea for this question?
thanks.
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