Re: EBCDIC Stream File to ASCII

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at the CPY command on the iSeries - there are from and to 
CCSIDs, as well as *BINARY or *TEXT data types - use *TEXT to make it 
convert the data.

At 07:35 AM 2/11/2005, you wrote:
> Is there a simple way to convert or copy a text stream file in the IFS
> from EBCDIC to ASCII?  We have a 3rd party app that writes out a text
> log file to the IFS but the file is EBCDIC.  When we use a file
> share/mapped drive to copy the file to a PC it loads as junk unless we
> use an app like UltraEdit to convert it to ASCII.
>
> We're at V5R3.
>
> Thanks,
>
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