VAX to IBM File Transfer

Hello Oracle Guru's

As part of our system requirements, we need to transfer flat ASCII files from VAX to the IBM Mainframe machines. We are facing a lot of problems when we have signed numeric fields (comp-3) as part of the data & which needs to be read by the legacy COBOL code. I would appreciate any input from all of you out there if you have solved this problem in any fashion. We are thinking of adding a column which will tell us if the number is a (-) or (+) (& have the number column unsigned) & then sending the file over. There would be bridge program which in turn would reading it & convert it to comp-3 EBCDIC. But this would be our last alternative. If there is a simpler way of doing this, it would be great.

Thanks in advance. Received on Fri Aug 15 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT