ASCII to EBCDIC with packed fields

[Kesterson, Roger]

PH 7.10.G2 on OpenVMS 7.1

I'm sorry, this isn't exactly a PowerHouse question.  I am generating text
files from PowerHouse on our Alpha and FTP'ing them to our AS/400 to be used
by a MAPICS offline load program.  Apparently, some crack (head) programmer
thought it would be amusing to put a smattering of packed fields into the
offline load file definitions, so when the file is FTP'd from the Alpha
(ASCII) to the AS/400 (EBCDIC), the packed fields get clobbered.

My hope is that someone out there has an easy solution to this problem.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!