ASCII to EBCDIC with packed fields

[george.j.wen@us.abb.com]

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We do this sort of thing a lot.  Our standard is to create a portable subfile
whose fields
have all been converted to type character already and and then FTP the file to
where-
ever it's needed (usually done in a CL prog).  We're on an AS/400 now but the
same
standard worked equally as well on our Alpha box.

Good Luck.


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To:   "'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'" <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
cc:    (bcc: George J. Wen/NB/USFAC/ABB)
Subject:  ASCII to EBCDIC with packed fields

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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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