Re: Ascii and EBCDIC translation

Jim

what is the EBCDIC CSSid on your machine and how do you recieve files?

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We do a lot of import and export of data, plus have both PC client (local
> and web) input as well at PC5250.
> Had a recent thread involving cut and paste data (ebcdic x'3F') that caused
> an issue.
> We use CCSID 37 and ascii 819.
>
> There are more EBCDIC characters than what we see on the US Keyboard. Some
> we need, such as copyright symbol, cents sign, etc, but many
>
> We are wanting to take steps to clean the data on input, whether from ascii
> or ebcdic side. We have some input already cleansed, but only at screen
> program level.
>
> Couple questions:
> 1. Just replacing all below ebcdic x'40'  leaves a lot of strange
> characters like x'8C' (sort of a moon with a hat..). One thought is to
> identify all the characters we need and replace the rest. No need to keep
> line and page formatting stuff.
> Is this a good idea?
>
> 2. Thinking that since a multitude of entry/update points, db triggers are
> best? Am wondering about apps that write the data, and now after write, the
> screen column data is different than column data in file (trigger pgm
> cleaned the data - hoping to avoid opening up all the apps.
>
> 3. How far do people with heavy edi take this? Am I leaving some something
> out with the keyboard characters plus a few more? These are names,
> addresses, notes (which are sometimes pages of notes).
>
> Jim Franz
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