EBCDIC-to-ASCII

[bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I would suggest looking at the CPY command then.  It provides for CCSID
conversion on the copy and you could then zip the resulting output file.

Bruce

>
>>
>> We ftp files and the EBCDIC-ASCII translation happens automatically in that
>> process.  We also use CPYTOSTMF to convert from a database file to an ASCII
>> file in the IFS.  You could do this and then ftp the file from the IFS.
>>
>
>The problem with that method the file is 99MBs+ we want to convert the file
>than use PKzip or something like that to zip the file to cut down on the
>transmission time.  Currently we are doing what you suggested above but the
>transmission time is to long.  Transmitting a zipped file would be more
>efficient but it has to be ASCI
>


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