I like IBM's Unicode Services on z/OS for internationalization and conversion support, but of course z/OS only. A corresponding set of services and functions provided by IBM for LUW platforms as a free download would be most welcome!
The following utility may have already been mentioned, but not sure, so... https://sourceforge.net/projects/convertcp/ HTH, Mike -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. 1. Yes, maybe I described it incorretly. Regarding your question - yes I need something like convert ifile ofile [-tablefile] Just byte to byte translation. No CR/LF issues, no record boundaries, just byte to byte. The file can be large (may not fit in memory). I agree, it is not black magic. Actually ...I did it in the past. I wrote simple program in Turbo Pascal. AFAIR 1 hour later I modified it to read translation table from a file. However it was many moons ago and the tool is no longer usable, cause it is 16-bit application (for DOS) and current x64 Windows does not run such programs. There are tools like virtual machine or just DosBox, but it seems to be Rube Goldberg solution. While I am still able to code a program (I hope so!), I don't want to start the project, install huge tool like Visual Studio, start learning "foreign" language, learn all the environment specifics, etc. It is just like building brewery just to have a beer for dinner. Not to mention security policies. As I said, I did it in the past, using ancient (now) tools, and I know how to do it in z/OS realm. And it seems simple, so I hope someone already did it and the tool is available as many, many other tools. HxD has many advantages, but I guess it has no batch mode. Batch is better - it is automatic ;-) I don't know how many files will be processed that way, now it is possible to do it manually, but thing may change. 2. This is even simpler tool, maybe it address rare need - just to truncate first nnn bytes from beginning of file Possible usage: truncfile -header -12384 ifile ofile truncates/deletes header, which is 12384 bytes long, the output is written to ofile. Ofile is shorter than ifile, the difference is 12384 bytes. No CR/LF issues, just byte after byte. I'm going to install HxD and try its features. However I'm still looking for something batch-able. Thank you! Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 29.12.2020 o 17:32, Charles Mills pisze: > 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 . ====================================================================== Jeśli nie jesteś adresatem tej wiadomości: - powiadom nas o tym w mailu zwrotnym (dziękujemy!), - usuń trwale tę wiadomość (i wszystkie kopie, które wydrukowałeś lub zapisałeś na dysku). Wiadomość ta może zawierać chronione prawem informacje, które może wykorzystać tylko adresat. 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