Re: Ascii to Epdic conversions

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This works, but I can not take credit for this code.  Was from a program
I downloaded and debugged to work.

  * Declare QDCXLATE API and its parameters                              
  *                                                                      
 D XLate           PR                  ExtPgm('QDCXLATE')                
 D                                5P 0                                   
 D                              512A   Options(*Varsize) Const           
 D                               10A                                     
  *                                                                      

 D XlateBuffLen    S              5P 0                          
 D XlateBuffer     S            512A                            
 D Ebcdic2Ascii    S             10A   Inz('QASCII')            
 D Ascii2Ebcdic    S             10A   Inz('QEBCDIC')           

  ...
   
 C                   MoveL     Buffer        XLateBuffer           
 C                   Eval      Xlatebufflen = %Len(%Trim(Buffer))  
 C                   CallP     Xlate ( XLateBuffLen :              
 C                                     XLateBuffer :               
 C                                     Ebcdic2Ascii )              

Regards,

Jim Langston

Mike Silvers wrote:
> 
> I have a socket program that connects to a remote server and retrieves data.
> The problem is that the data received is in ASCII and I am having some
> issues converting it.  I receive the data into a variable defined as 132A in
> RPG.  When I refer to this variable and call the utility program QDCXLATE, I
> receive all @ in return (an error condition).  I have set the variable to
> dump when it is reached so I can look at the hex values.  I see that the hex
> values are valid values in ASCII.  What I believe I need to do is to use the
> hex value of the return string and convert the hex value from ASCII to
> EPDIC.  After that is done life will be easy....
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike Silvers
> 
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