EBCDIC to ASCII was(Difference between EBCDIC and EDCDIC charter set?)

[Frank.Kolmann@xxxxxxxxxx]

I believe,
EBCDIC  is Extended Binary Coded Decimal
EDCBIC  is a spelling mistake.

I use
 CALL      'QDCXLATE'
 PARM                    LENIN       5,0
 PARM                    DATA    32767 (max)
 PARM                    SBCS

optional
 PARM                    SBCSLIB


Parm SBCS carries a table name, I use

QASCII      *TBL      QSYS  EBCDIC TO ASCII TRANSLATE TABLE
QEBCDIC     *TBL      QSYS  ASCII TO EBCDIC TRANSLATE TABLE


I believe a c function iconv() will also do the job.
Check the archives maybe someone has posted how to use this.
I have problems with iconv(). Perhaps someone can post a
prototyped procedure to invoke icon() as a function call.

QDCXLATE can also handle DBCS, only Korean Japanese
Taiwan  & Chinese (both types)but you need more parms,
if you need I can be more specific.

Regards
Frank Kolmann

>
>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,