ASCII to EBCDIC with packed fields

[Deskin, Bob]

If you have PowerHouse on both boxes, you could write out a portable subfile
on the Alpha which will be all text, then copy that over to the AS/400 while
translating to EBCDIC, and then read the portable subfiles in on the AS/400.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA

-----Original Message-----
From: Kesterson, Roger [mailto:Roger.Kesterson@mtdsw.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:14 AM
To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
Subject: ASCII to EBCDIC with packed fields


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!

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