RE: the conversion is from Mainframe flat file to Unix Flat file

From: Kevin Lange <kgel_at_ppoone.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 07:47:56 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0032CFE5.20010618063628@fatcity.com>

EBCDIC is the character set used on main frames. Many products that move them to other systems perform a translation automatically (a case in point being FTP in ASCII mode). But not all.

Here is a translation chart I found on the web : http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/asciiebcdic.html

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what is EBCDIC format

I have a customer from IBM DB2 mainframe going to pass data to my oracle system for matching of record ,what they told me is the tape is in EBCDIC format ? I don't have any experience on these format ? can anyone please explain /guildline on these ?

Raymond fall asleep in waiting for the Q.

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