I noticed. I did find about what you did. I might just ask the crew that sent this little gem to retry with something a bit less mainframe centric. http://jymengant.ifrance.com/jymengant/jurassicFAQ.html Java seems to have a PackedDecimal class available. It also has EBCDIC classes. See questions Q5 and Q3 I have found a comercial product that claims to handle this http://www.emaglink.com/prodMMUnix.htm. It looks as though there is a library that can work with this also libcci.a http://www.arsc.edu/~kcarlson/software/man/libcci.html -----Original Message----- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org] Sent: Wed, November 06, 2002 5:06 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:32:10PM -0500, Paul Hamm wrote: > I am familiar with EBCDIC and ASCII conversion with dd. Currently I need to > convert a mainframe tape in EBCDIC with packed decimal format into ASCII. > dd does not handle packed decimal format. Does anyone know of a utilitie > that does? Doing some google searches is coming up with slim pickings... There are some commercial packages and services but not much for free stuff. Look at uakebcpd at http://www.arsc.edu/~kcarlson/software/ Subroutines to help you write your own: http://www.arsc.edu/~kcarlson/software/man/libcci.html The general discusssions surrounding this suggest that you're better off converting the data before the tape gets written, or writing a custom tool after you get the data. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
