RE: Difference between EBCDIC and EDCDIC charter set?

["Rooney, Michael P [CI]" <michael.p.rooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lokesh,

There are significant differences between ASCII and EBCDIC.  While the 
translation 
between "characters" is handled by the majority of file transfer products like
FTP, the bigger issue is in the representation of numeric data.  You will 
experience
translation problems if the mainframe file contains packed or binary fields.  
Because
many file transfer products are unaware of the fields "format", they perform 
simple
byte-for-byte translation.  The translated result of of packed or binary field 
is
usually unintelligable.  You will have similar translation problems in trying to
handle a numeric fields sign (+/-).

Hope this helps.

Michael Rooney
Citigroup International  
     
   

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lokesh Gupta
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:16 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Difference between EBCDIC and EDCDIC charter set?


Hi Everyone, 

I could not find any conclusive information on the Internet hence the mail to 
this forum. 

I need to convert an EDCDIC file (received from mainframe) to ASCII. In most of 
the documents EDCDIC and EBCDIC is used interchangeably. My initial research 
suggests that one is a subset of other. I am trying to confirm if there is any 
difference in the character set or anything I should be aware of before 
starting the conversion. Any pointers will be helpful.

regards,
Lokesh Gupta,
Infosys Technologies Ltd.,
Mobile: 239-839-7673
www.infosys.com

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