RE: Converting EBCDIC to ASCII

Thanks for the information. How does your mainframe guy get the data out of IMS?

Thanks,
Ken
> We do not pull data directly from IMS but load it in batch jobs. Our
> mainframe guy either dumps the data report-style (ASCII) or copies records
> in native EBCDIC to files on the mainframe. We ftp them to the Oracle side
> (binary mode to EBCDIC files) and use sql loader to move into Oracle. On
> the files that come over in EBCDIC, I use sqlloader with the following in
> the control file. There are a few bugs with loading EBCDIC (search
> metalink) but we manage to get it loaded.
>
>
>
> LOAD DATA
> CHARACTERSET WE8EBCDIC500
> INFILE 'e:\filename.dat' "fix 688"
> ...
>
>
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>
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>
> I may be moving data from an IMS db which is stored in
> EBCDIC. Oracle stores data in ASCII format. How do I
> go about converting EBCDIC to ASCII to store the data in
> Oracle (8.1.?)?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Janusz, CPIM
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