Re: Query to identify EBCDIC Printable characters

[Vinay Gavankar <vinaygav@xxxxxxxxx>]

So that would consider x'41', x'42' etc as printable characters, but they
do not show up as anything in the ebcdic table.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Not sure how you are going to inspect each character position
> of each field.
>
> But the following works for a single character field:
>
> SELECT * FROM somlib/afile
> WHERE onechar < (X'40')
>    OR onechar > (X'FE')
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vinay Gavankar
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:11 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Query to identify EBCDIC Printable characters
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to use Query or SEQUEL (cannot run SQL on production box), to
> identify any records in a file, that have fields with non-printable
> characters.
>
> Without having to define every printable character I see in the EBCDIC
> table in my query, what would be the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks
> Vinay
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