GUIA Conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

Dear Gurus!!
I'm needing a manual or guide of the conversión EBCDIC to ASCII in the V5R3M0 iSeries. i570.
Can you help me?
Best Regards.
Luis

Hi Morga,
it has nothing to do with the OS release. You can stay on EBCDIC because of that as you found out.
But:
All release newer than 4.6D are in ASCII and UNICODE ONLY!
=> If you want to upgrade to e.g. ECC 6.0, you MUST convert to ASCII first ...
hope this helps,
Regards
Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut.gmbh
http://www.consolut.de - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

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Hi Katerina,
applying journal changes from the EBCDIC system to the ASCII system will not work for several reasons, primarily because the journal keeps track of the journaled tables through an internal journal ID, which will not be the same after the EBCDIC to ASCII conversion. Technically it would not work because the data in the journal entries is kept very low-level, so a conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII during apply is not implemented. Also, the journal entries are based on the relative record numbers in the table, and after the conversion, the relative record numbers will not necessarily be the same.
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i have .dat file which extract from mainframe in EBCDIC format n i have to load in table using sqlloader.
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Bonjour,
Je n'ai trouvé aucun outil Labview ni aucun post traitant de ce problème:
Convertir du ASCII en hexa n'est pas un problème, mais je ne parviens pas à faire l'inverse.
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Je souhaite la traiter pour obtenir une variable chaîne de valeur < qui est son equivalent en ASCII
Mon VI ne se résume bien évidemment pas à cela mais le principe sur lequel je bloque est rigoureusement celui ci.
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Je peux traiter ceci cas par cas mais ça me paraît inutilement lourd.
Y a-t-il un outil qui m'aurait echappé ?
Une méthode particulière que je ne connais pas ?
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logique que tu ai 030D, tu converti une tableau d'octet, dois je te rappeler qu'un octet prend toujours 2 digits en Hexa, Puisqu’un digit par quartet.
c'est a toi d'extraire les données que tu veux (1quartet) de chaque octet, et de les lier 2 à 2 pour en fair des octets et ainsi pouvoir les lire via la chaine.
je rajouterais que labview et un peu lourd pour ce genre de traitement si facilement faisable en C.
mais je te l'ai quand meme fais (une bonne demi-heure de perdue!)
t'aurais pu chercher quand meme
je crois que tu vas devoir me mettre 5 etoiles, car la je bosse pour toi.
mobyJ
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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,
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Bill

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