Re: the conversion is from Mainframe flat file to Unix Flat file - b

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001,Raymond Lee Meng Hong scribbled on the wall in glitter...:

->what is EBCDIC format
->
->I have a customer from IBM DB2 mainframe going to pass data to my oracle
->system for matching of record ,what they told me is the tape is in EBCDIC
->format ? I don't have any experience on these format ? can anyone please
->explain /guildline on these ?
->
->
->Raymond fall asleep in waiting for the Q.
->
->

it's Extended Binary Data Interchange Code or EBDIC and wad big blue's attempt at ASCII. there should be utilities on your system to convert. what's your OS and version?

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