EBCDIC to ASCII conversion in NDM/FTP job

gprerna · New User Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 38 Location: US

I have a EBCDIC file format which needs to be converted to ASCII format when its sent to a system. Is there any parameter which can be specified in the NDM job to do this conversion?

superk · Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:24 pm

No, but the Process you use will need a SYSOPTS parameter specified with XLAT=YES for the COPY step. The SYSOPTS parameter values are unique for the particular SNODE you're communicating with.

Balakrishnan · New User Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 3 Location: US

You can use the below piece of code also:

//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,REGION=512K
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//EBCIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USER007.TEST.EBCDIC
//ASCOUT DD DSN=USER007.TEST.FILE1.ASCII,
// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,CATLG),
// UNIT=SYSDA,DCB=*.EBCIN
// SPACE=(CYL,(10,10),RLSE)
//SYSTSIN DD *
OCOPY INDD(EBCIN) OUTDD(ASCOUT) CONVERT((BPXFX311)) FROM1047
/*

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:41 am

Hello,

Is there some reason you prefer copying the entire file rather than letting the transfer do the conversion?

Balakrishnan · New User Joined: 21 Aug 2009 Posts: 3 Location: US

Not really, we had couple of requirements where we need to change from EBCDIC to ASCII though we were not doing the FTP for that file. SO thought of sharing it with the group.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:55 am

Thanks for the clarification

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