Cobol to convert UTF-8 to EBCDIC

sandhyarenu · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 16 Location: India

Hi,

Could someone help with a sampe Cobol Code that converts UTF-8 data to EBCDIC and vice versa ? Thanks much in advance.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:35 am

a google search on "cobol utf ebcdic conversion" will return lots of pointers

the request, as posed, is a bit generic -
here is a pointer for the CICS environment ,

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.cics.ts31.doc/dfhp3/dqx1dfhp3i2.htm

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:45 am

Hello sandhyarenu and welcome to the forums,

Please clarify your requirement.

UTF-8 does not directly "convert" to EBCDIC.

If you show some sample data and what you want to do with it, someone may have a suggestion.

sandhyarenu · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 16 Location: India

Thanks for the quick updates. My requirement however plainly states that a cobol code is to be developed which takes file containing UTF-8 data as input and converts it to EBCDIC which will form the o/p file so that a normal mainframe cobol code is compatible with the data. I googled and found some sample codes which do ASCII-EBCDIC conversions but not UTF-8 ! And, I did not quite understand dick's response as to why UTF-8 cannot be converted to EBCDIC. Is there a normalisation required like using the Function National() which converts UTF/EBCDIC data to national format before further conversion ? I hope I make myself clear. Any thoughts ?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:02 am

where does the file come from??
if it is ftp'ed then ftp will take care of it ( IIRC )

sandhyarenu · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 16 Location: India

I don't think it's ftped. Atleast in my requirement, I need to come up with a test file containing UTF-8 data(manually created).

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:16 am

Hello,

sandhyarenu · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 16 Location: India

Absolutely, Dick ! My mistake..

sandhyarenu · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 16 Location: India

Dick, The link is more of theory and I really couldn't trace a cobol code for the conversion I am looking for.

sandhyarenu · New User Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 16 Location: India

I found that UTF-16 could be converted to and from an EBCDIC data. Now my task is to convert UTF-8 to & from a UTF-16 data. Any inputs to this ?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:34 pm

if You had searched the zos bookshelves for publications containing
in the title the word unicode
You would have been directed to

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/SEARCH?SEARCHREQUEST=unicode&Book=IEA2UN71&DN=SA22-7649-09&DT=20080118011120&TYPE=FUZZY&RANK=RANK&SEARCHTOPIC=TOPIC&SEARCHTEXT=TEXT&SEARCHINDEX=INDEX&SHELF=EZ2ZO10K.bks

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:13 pm

Hello,

--> sandhyarenu
Do you have what you need?

Where does your UTFx input originate?