Re: Ascii file conversion

"a highlighted "box" of the data with a couple of &'s scattered in the
highlighted box.", usually means that the data you are looking at is packed
decimal. If you use dsppfm and then press F10 (F10=Display hexadecimal),
the fields in question could display something like this 000F0000 0FF0F7F2,
where the first 000F is a 2,0 Packed decimal field, followed by 0000 0F
being a 4,0 packed decimal field.


Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx


                                                                       
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Hi, I'm using a 3rd party software to get an ascii file from another system
directly into an AS400 file.    However, when I use dsppfm I only see a
highlighted "box" of the data with a couple of &'s scattered in the
highlighted box.  How do I convert the file so that dsppfm views it
correctly?
Thanks
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