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bonda0123

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:51 pm
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I need a help for the conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII. Can anyone help me with the JCL utility or the JCL which helps us in this conversion.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:46 pm
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Hello,

Are you working between platforms (i.e mainframe and win-based/unix)?

Nearly always ascii/ebcdic translation is done as part of a file transfer.

If you explain more about what you need to do, we may have better suggestions.
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superk

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:42 pm
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EBCDIC to ASCII. Three methods that I know of:

Code:

//STEPXXX  EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01                                       
//SYSTERM  DD   DUMMY                                               
//INPUT    DD   DSN=FB.dataset.EBC,DISP=SHR             
//OUTPUT   DD   DSN=FB.dataset.ASC,                     
//         DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),...                                     
//SYSTSIN  DD   DATA                                               
OCOPY INDD(input) OUTDD(output) TEXT CONVERT((BPXFX311)) FROM1047   
/*                                                                 


Code:

//STEPXXX  EXEC SAS
//INPUT    DD   DSN=FB.dataset.EBC,DISP=SHR             
//OUTPUT   DD   DSN=FB.dataset.ASC,                     
//         DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),... 
//SYSIN    DD   *                                                       
DATA _NULL_;                         
INFILE INPUT;                       
FILE OUTPUT;                         
INPUT @1 LINE1 $CHAR80.;             
PUT @1 LINE1 $ASCII80.;             
/*


Code:

/* REXX E2A                                                          */
/* INPUT VARIABLES:                                                  */
/* DLM  = ASCII RECORD DELIMITER. NO DEFAULT. NORMALLY SET TO        */
/*        CRLF (CARRIAGE RETURN/LINE FEED) FOR WINDOWS, OR           */
/*        LF (LINE FEED ONLY) FOR UNIX SYSTEMS.                      */
/* TERM = ASCII END-OF-FILE TERMINATOR. NO DEFAULT. NORMALLY SET TO  */
/*        CZ (CONTROL-Z) FOR DOS OR WINDOWS.                         */
/* ***************************************************************** */
/* INPUT FILES:                                                      */
/* SYSUT1 = INPUT EBCDIC DATASET TO BE CONVERTED. MAY BE EITHER      */
/*          FB OR VB.                                                */
/* SYSUT2 = OUTPUT ASCII DATASET. RECOMMENDED TO BE VB.              */
/* ***************************************************************** */
PARSE UPPER ARG DLM TERM .                                   
SELECT                                                       
  WHEN DLM = "CR"   THEN REC_DLM = '0D'X                     
  WHEN DLM = "LF"   THEN REC_DLM = '0A'X                     
  WHEN DLM = "CRLF" THEN REC_DLM = '0D0A'X                   
  WHEN DLM = "LFCR" THEN REC_DLM = '0A0D'X                   
  OTHERWISE REC_DLM = ""                                     
END                                                           
SELECT                                                       
  WHEN TERM = "CZ"  THEN REC_TERM = '1A'X                     
  OTHERWISE REC_TERM = ""                                     
END                                                           
DO FOREVER                                                   
  "EXECIO 1 DISKR SYSUT1"                                     
  IF RC <> 0 THEN LEAVE                                       
  PARSE PULL EBC_REC                                         
  ASC_REC = ""                                               
  DO LOOP = 1 TO LENGTH(STRIP(EBC_REC,T," "))                 
    CHR = SUBSTR(EBC_REC,LOOP,1)                             
    CHR = E2A(CHR)                                           
    ASC_REC = ASC_REC||CHR                                           
  END                                                                 
  ASC_REC = ASC_REC||REC_DLM                                         
  PUSH ASC_REC                                                       
  "EXECIO 1 DISKW SYSUT2"                                             
END                                                                   
IF LENGTH(REC_TERM) > 0 THEN                                         
  DO                                                                 
    PUSH REC_TERM                                                     
    "EXECIO 1 DISKW SYSUT2"                                           
  END                                                                 
"EXECIO 0 DISKR SYSUT1 (FINIS"                                       
"EXECIO 0 DISKW SYSUT2 (FINIS"                                       
EXIT 0                                                               
                                                                     
E2A:                                                                 
RETURN TRANSLATE(ARG(1), ,                                           
                 '00 01 02 03 9C 09 86 7F 97 8D 8E 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F'X||,
                 '10 11 12 13 9D 85 08 87 18 19 92 8F 1C 1D 1E 1F'X||,
                 '80 81 82 83 84 0A 17 1B 88 89 8A 8B 8C 05 06 07'X||,
                 '90 91 16 93 94 95 96 04 98 99 9A 9B 14 15 9E 1A'X||,
                 '20 A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 5B 2E 3C 28 2B 21'X||,
                 '26 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF B0 B1 5D 24 2A 29 3B 5E'X||,
                 '2D 2F B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 7C 2C 25 5F 3E 3F'X||,
                 'BA BB BC BD BE BF C0 C1 C2 60 3A 23 40 27 3D 22'X||,
                 'C3 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9'X||,
                 'CA 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F 70 71 72 CB CC CD CE CF D0'X||,
                 'D1 7E 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7A D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7'X||,
                 'D8 D9 DA DB DC DD DE DF E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7'X||,
                 '7B 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED'X||,
                 '7D 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F 50 51 52 EE EF F0 F1 F2 F3'X||,
                 '5C 9F 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9'X||,
                 '30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 FA FB FC FD FE FF'X) 
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:45 pm
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... plus this previous topic ...

www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=3963
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bonda0123

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:18 am
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Hi Dick scherrer and superk, Thanks a Lot for the immediate response.

I got a cobol code for doing this transaction :

COBOL CODE :
Code:

Code removed due to copyright

And the JCL to be run with the code will be :
JCL



Thanks a Lot once again to both of you for the immediate response.






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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:59 pm
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You're welcome icon_smile.gif

After the conversion, how will the ascii file be used on the mainframe?
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:51 am
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Hello,

It has been brought to my attention that the code you posted is copyright material. Removing the copyright notice does not remove the copyright.

Do not post anything that is copyright in the forums.

I have removed the code.
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bonda0123

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:06 am
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Thanks a Lot for letting me know this Scherer...yes as you said that is a copyright material got from some website search....But can you please let me know the way we can find out whether its a copyright material or not..So that I will take decision in future...

Thanks a Lot again for letting me know this!!! icon_smile.gif
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:03 pm
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The task of converting from EBCDIC to ASCII and the reverse are not that simple...
Depending on the application and it's portability You need to take into account also the codepage

a google search on :
Quote:
cobol ebcdic ascii conversion codepage

will give You many documents to meditate on!

I would check also the capabilities of enterprise cobol
as far as unicode and ebcdic ascii support
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=locale&uid=swg27004197&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en

regards

e.s
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:50 pm
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Sorry was away from my laptop from past few dayz. i will check those documents and will let you know if I have any clarifications.

Thanks a Lot Enrico once again for giving me this further info..!!!
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