EBCDIC to ASCII excluding packed fields

[ALH]

During our migration from HP3000 to HP9000 we encounter a problem with the conversion of EBCDIC encoded files. Our main HP3000 application reads files from an AS400. These files are converted from EBCDIC to ASCII. During this conversion, packed decimal fields are left untouched. This is all done using the FCOPY command like this: FCOPY FROM=IN;TO=OUT;EBCDICIN=(1:4;15:19),EXCLUDE

On a HP9000, this seems not possible. We found that the dd command performs EBCDIC to ASCII conversion but has no options to exclude the packed decimal fields.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

[Cheryl Griffin]

Document A1534535 in the ITRC Knowledge Base explains how to use FCOPY to exclude packed fields.

There is a FCOPY REFERENCE MANUAL, manual part no. 03000-90064.

[ALH]

Thanks but as far as I know the FCOPY command does not exist on the HP9000. I am looking for a replacement for the FCOPY solution on a HP9000.

[Cheryl Griffin]

Do you have access to the ITRC Knowledge Base? There were several documents there using search keywords: ebcdic ascii packed

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

fcopy is part of the tcl package, you can download from;

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Tcl/tcl-8.2.1/

install it on your HP9000 and it comes with fcopy.