1. Conversion tool: your question is a little under-specified. You want a file to file conversion program? Read in a file in EBCDIC and write it out in ASCII?
Do you have any ability at all to write a program for Windows? In C, Rexx, Visual Basic, etc.? The basics of translation are fairly simple. Would not be terribly hard to read-in the translation table from some specified source. Can you code at all in any non-mainframe-specific language? MS Visual Studio is free in lightweight versions and would let you build and debug a simple program pretty readily. There is the nasty problem of line endings. (Don't get @Gil started <g>) Do you expect "records" in ASCII? How will they be delimited? How will the line endings in the EBCDIC file be indicated? 2. Pretty much the same answer. @Steve, I don't think it's what he is looking for, but another vote here for HxD in general. I find it useful for examining EBCDIC files on a PC. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 5:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools 1. I'm looking for some simple tool for conversion EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa. Unfortunately it has to run under Windows. Requirements: Run under Windows, preferrably in batch mode (command line interface) Custom-defined tables of conversion 2. I'm looking for a tool similar to IDCAMS SKIP/COUNT - the goal is to skip first nnn bytes of the file or skip file remainder. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
