Replacing packed fields in record

I've hit a wall and I'm hoping someone can help me with a simple solution.

About 10 months ago our data warehouse group asked us to remove packed fields from a file they receive from an outside vendor. At the time I did something simple that replaced the packed fields with blanks. I'm pretty sure I didn't write a program. Unfortunately I don't have any notes on what I did and now they are asking to make it a permanent process. I think it involved creating a file as ASCII and copying data but I can't find a combination that works. I have googled ASCII conversions on the iSeries as well as tried various CRTPF, CPYFRMSTMF, CPYFTMIMPF, and SQL variations over the past day and a half.

Does anyone have a way to do this short of writing a program or an SQL update statement? There is an anomaly in the records that precludes just updating fixed positions in the record. I may have to do that anyway but I would prefer not to.

TIA,

Rick Chevalier
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