Re: Converting EBCDIC to ASCII

>
> If you "export" the IMS data out to flat textfiles,
> and then transfer them via ftp in "ASCII" mode, the
> conversion will be done automagically for you.
>
> Alternatively if on Unix the "dd" utility will
> do the conversion for you.

One problem that we encountered with using dd to convert EBCDIC to ASCII (in a completely different situation so it might not apply here) is that brackets came out as the characters having octal values 342 and 343 in ASCII.

                        Pat

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