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

Raymond
        EBCDIC is the format few mainframe computer uses. Unix systems typically uses ASCII. I am not sure about the type of the file, but you may have to convert the file from EBCDIC to ASCII to make any meaning ful use of the file. You could use dd command for this conversion..
dd if=input file of=outfile conv=ascii bs=128k

Thanks
Riyaj "Re-yas" Shamsudeen
Certified Oracle DBA
i2 technologies   www.i2.com

Raymond Lee Meng Hong <RAYMOND_at_infopro.com.my> Sent by: root_at_fatcity.com
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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 ?

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