EBCDIC conversion

hi
my requirement is to create a function module for EBCDIC conversion for -ve quantities. this is for Accounts Payable Invoices Record
for example a Quantity Received, S9(8), of -1150 ... will be passed as 0000115}
For example an A/P Invoice Amount, S9(10)v9(2), of -592.52 ... will be passed as 00000005925K
Negative
     0 = }
     1 = J
     2 = K
     3 = L
     4 = M
     5 = N
     6 = O
     7 = P
     8 = Q
     9 = R
with regards,
srinath.

Hi,
Have you considered using the ABAP command TRANSLATE?
You can disassemble the value (WRITE into a character structure with 8 + 1 character fields) and then TRANSLATE the second field using the dictionary you wrote in your post.
TRANSLATE ls_value-last_digit USING '0}1J2K3L4M5N6O7P8Q9R'.
<<text removed>>
Regards,
Ogeday
Edited by: Matt on Feb 17, 2009 5:56 AM - Please do not ask for points

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can anyone Suggest the Way of Converting
unicode char set to Ebcdic & vice versa.. too..
conversion shld happen within java

I am working on this myself, here is what I have come up with but it is still in testing. I am mainly unsure what dangers there are in the cast convesrionsfrom (ints to chars / chars to ints)
public class EBCDICtoASCIIConverter {
     /** ASCII <=> EBCDIC conversion functions */
     static int[] a2e = {
0, 1, 2, 3, 55, 45, 46, 47, 22, 5, 37, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19, 60, 61, 50, 38, 24, 25, 63, 39, 28, 29, 30, 31,
64, 79,127,123, 91,108, 80,125, 77, 93, 92, 78,107, 96, 75, 97,
240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,122, 94, 76,126,110,111,
124,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,209,210,211,212,213,214,
215,216,217,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233, 74,224, 90, 95,109,
121,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,145,146,147,148,149,150,
151,152,153,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,192,106,208,161, 7,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 21, 6, 23, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 9, 10, 27,
48, 49, 26, 51, 52, 53, 54, 8, 56, 57, 58, 59, 4, 20, 62,225,
65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
88, 89, 98, 99,100,101,102,103,104,105,112,113,114,115,116,117,
118,119,120,128,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,154,155,156,157,158,
159,160,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,
184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191,202,203,204,205,206,207,218,219,
220,221,222,223,234,235,236,237,238,239,250,251,252,253,254,255
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0, 1, 2, 3,156, 9,134,127,151,141,142, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
16, 17, 18, 19,157,133, 8,135, 24, 25,146,143, 28, 29, 30, 31,
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45, 47,178,179,180,181,182,183,184,185,124, 44, 37, 95, 62, 63,
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202,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,203,204,205,206,207,208,
209,126,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,210,211,212,213,214,215,
216,217,218,219,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,
123, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73,232,233,234,235,236,237,
125, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82,238,239,240,241,242,243,
92,159, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90,244,245,246,247,248,249,
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     int n = (int)c;
               System.out.println("ASCII Character " + c + " is in position " + n);
               System.out.println("EBCDIC Character is in position " + a2e[n]);
     return (char)a2e[n];
     static char EBCDICtoASCII(char c)
     int n = (int)c;
               System.out.println("EBCDIC Character " + c + " is in position " + n);
               System.out.println("ASCII Character is in position " + e2a[n]);
     return (char)e2a[n];
     static String ASCIItoEBCDIC(String s)
          StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
          for (int i=0;i<s.length();i++) {
               char c = s.charAt(i);
     int n = (int)c;
               System.out.println("ASCII Character " + c + " is in position " + n);
               System.out.println("EBCDIC Character is in position " + a2e[n]);
     //return (char)a2e[n];
     sb.append((char)a2e[n]);
return sb.toString();
     static String EBCDICtoASCII(String s)
          StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
          for (int i=0;i<s.length();i++) {
               char c = s.charAt(i);
     int n = (int)c;
               System.out.println("EBCDIC Character " + c + " is in position " + n);
               System.out.println("ASCII Character is in position " + e2a[n]);
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ASCII to EBCDIC conversion

Hi there!
I am working on an Oracle data extract project. My output file will send to a DB2 database and a mainframe application. In my file, some fields' type is COMP-3. I use Oracle build-in function convert () to convert to EBCDIC. This works fine in SQL*PLUS. But when I use it in my PL/SQL program, I got "ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character to number conversion error". Here is my program.
FUNCTION get_vd_pro_norm_mth_amt(p_account_rec IN ACCOUNT_ROW) return varchar2
as
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BEGIN
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          b.account_obj_type = p_account_rec.poid_type and
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EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
RETURN NULL;
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I guess the wrong data type of my variable v_scaled_amount generated the problem. I do not know which data type should I use to store EBCDIC data.
Thanks a lot!
Max

try with nvarchar2.
NVARCHAR2
You use the NVARCHAR2 datatype to store variable-length Unicode character data. How the data is represented internally depends on the national character set specified when the database was created, which might use a variable-width encoding (UTF8) or a fixed-width encoding (AL16UTF16). Because this type can always accommodate multibyte characters, you can use it to hold any Unicode character data.
The NVARCHAR2 datatype takes a required parameter that specifies a maximum size in characters. The syntax follows:
NVARCHAR2(maximum_size)
Because the physical limit is 32767 bytes, the maximum value you can specify for the length is 32767/2 in the AL16UTF16 encoding, and 32767/3 in the UTF8 encoding.
You cannot use a symbolic constant or variable to specify the maximum size; you must use an integer literal.
The maximum size always represents the number of characters, unlike VARCHAR2 which can be specified in either characters or bytes.
my_string NVARCHAR2(200); -- maximum size is 200 characters
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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,
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Thank you !
But how can i use the other character sets instead of the common ?
May I load into the database ?
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ENTSTAMP TIMESTAMP(6) not null,
ORDNR NUMBER(11) not null,
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tablespace PLINK_HBCI
pctfree 10
pctused 40
initrans 1
maxtrans 255
storage
initial 64K
minextents 1
maxextents unlimited
insert into OIT015 (ENTSTAMP, ORDNR, ORDERDATEN)
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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.

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;
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theData : MemoryStream = new ;
tempData : BinaryData = new ;
countBytes : integer = 0 ;
tempcountBytes : integer = 0 ;
ConnId : ui2 = 0 ;
magicNumber : ui4 = 0x5aa50ff0 ;
p : pointer = nil;
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theHeader.Open(accessMode = SP_AM_READ_WRITE);
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countBytes = 0 ;
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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) ;
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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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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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Hi
Thanks for your response.
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Hello,
we have performed successfully an EBCDIC to ASCII conversion for a client's development system.
The total downtime was about 24 hours.
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Kind regards,
Christian Bartels.

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Hi Morga,
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- Upgrade to ERP 6.0 EHP4 ASCII - total Runtime about 40-65h - downtime of that: 10-24h
- Unicode Conversion Latin1 - 6-14h conversion time
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Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag
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Check out the DB2 z/OS Installation & Setup guide (...and, I think you mean ASCII and not ANSI...)
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Also, you may have to explicitly add in a conversion parameter if going to/from Nonstop... if you are, see the GG win/unix upgrade instructions for GG v11. It's just one parameter that I'm omitting here so as not to confuse the issue.
Note also that if you're using logdump, there are specific ebcdic commands you can use to view trail data & trail header info on z/OS. Just type "help" in logdump on z/OS for all the options.
If you're attempting to convert any of the unsupported data types -- then you'll probably have to do it in the database post-replication (e.g., Oracle DB has functions to do this), such as loading a staging table with the ebcdic data that is in turn processed and loads your ascii table. (There are probably a number of ways to accomplish this with varying degrees of complexity.)
Cheers,
-m

EBCDIC - ASCII Conversion for XI File Adapters

All:
Does XI File Adpater have built-in capability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa? We also need to handle pack decimals. All mainframe file based integration scenarios require this capability.
If there's no built-in capability available, are there any Java APIs available from SAP XI bundle some where.
Thanks and appreciate your feedback.

Hi,
Unfortunately, there is no built-in EBCDEC-ASCII conversion in XI. There are examples when you do a search on GOOGLE.
The java function can be used in either java mapping or adapter user-module.
Regards,
Bill

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