[Tutor] Converting EBCDIC characters to ASCII

[Steve Bricker]

 I see the scenario does not give enough to really allow someone to
formulate an answer.  Allow me to clarify a bit.  The three PD fields
are each 10 positions in length.  Using the example below, a field
with X'0000000000000000014C' would need to be expanded to a
19-character field of '0000000000000000014'.
 Steve Bricker
 On Thu 13/11/08 10:14 , Steve Bricker bricker.steve at imonmail.com
sent:
  I am trying to build an application for work that FTPs a file from
an IBM mainframe to my Windows desktop then process it.  The
EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion works nicely (using a BAT file I created)
except for three packed-decimal data fields (for example,
X'0000000000000000014C' is equal to integer 14).  I am assuming I
need to go through this byte-by-byte to convert.  Is that the best
approach, or is there a better way?
 Steve Bricker 
  
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