Viewing packed decimal field as a string

Folks,

When you are viewing journal data in the ENTRY_DATA field and it contains packed decimal information how do you get the decimal data to be represented as a string so you can read it rather then hexadecimal/binary gibberish (shows up as boxes in my attempt to convert it using this: cast( cast(entry_data as varchar(32000) for bit data) as varchar(32000) ccsid 37))?

Example here (plug in your own file name that has a packed field and own journal name and receiver as needed):

SELECT ENTRY_TIMESTAMP, "CURRENT_USER",
cast( cast(entry_data as varchar(32000) for bit data) as varchar(32000) ccsid 37)
,
X.* FROM TABLE ( QSYS2.Display_Journal(
'PUTlibrarynameHERE', --Journal Library
'PUTjournalnameHERE', -- Journal Name
CAST(NULL as VARCHAR(10)),
'*CURCHAIN', -- Receiver library and name
CAST(NULL AS TIMESTAMP), -- Starting timestamp Example: CURRENT TIMESTAMP - 7 DAYS,
CAST(null as DECIMAL(21,0)), -- Starting sequence number
'*ALL', -- Journal codes (R, F)
'*ALL', -- Journal entries (PT, DL, UP, SV, etc)
'PUTlibrarynameHERE','PUTfilenameHERE','*FILE','*ALL', -- Object library, Object name, Object type, Object member
'', -- User
'', -- Job
'', -- Program
CAST(NULL AS VARCHAR(10)),
'*CURCHAIN',
CAST(NULL AS TIMESTAMP),
CAST(NULL AS DECIMAL(21,0))
) ) AS x ORDER BY entry_timestamp DESC