Re: Converting EBCDIC to ASCII

Thanks for the help. Oracle will be located on a W/2000 box.

Could you go into more detail on how one "exports" data from IMS on the mainframe to flat textfiles?

Thanks,
Ken
>
> >
> > If you "export" the IMS data out to flat textfiles,
> > and then transfer them via ftp in "ASCII" mode, the
> > conversion will be done automagically for you.
> >
> > Alternatively if on Unix the "dd" utility will
> > do the conversion for you.
>
>
> One problem that we encountered with using dd to convert EBCDIC to
> ASCII (in a completely different situation so it might not apply here)
> is that brackets came out as the characters having octal values 342
> and 343 in ASCII.
>
>
> Pat
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