I need to ftp numeric data from MVS to a HP UNIX machine. Currently I am unpacking the data and writing in display format so that the conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII works properly. For example, a column defined as PIC S99V99 COMP-3 is defined as PIC 99.99-. The problem is that this file may contain 3 million records and when it hits the UNIX machine the numeric display fields have to be converted back to regular numerics so that additional calculations can be performed (based on additional information retrieved from an Oracle database). Right now I am using C program functions (atoi, atof and sprintf) to do this work but I feel that this may have excessive overhead. Any ideas??? Received on Tue Aug 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST
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