From kjanusz@att.net Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:04:20 -0700
From: kjanusz@att.net
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:04:20 -0700
Subject: RE: Converting EBCDIC to ASCII
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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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> 
> 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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