Re: VAX to AS/400 packed field conversion problem

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You probably need a little RPG pgm that reads in the fields and outputs them
packed.

Clare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Uros Davidovic" <Uros_Davidovic@compaid.com>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:52 PM
Subject: VAX to AS/400 packed field conversion problem


> Hey gang, trying to transfer files from a VAX system to the 400. We
> currently have a process in place that converts the packed fields on the
> VAX to signed numerics, then we FTP them ASCII and finally, copy from
> the flat file on the 400 to the database on the 400 that contains packed
> fields. Is there a simpler way to do this, I was playing around with the
> *TBL option on the CPYFRMSTMF (trying to copy to IFS as is), and trying
> to research what character set ID I would need to convert to (is VAX
> ascii?), but this does not seem to work?
>
> Any ideas how to simplify?
>
> Thanks,
> Uros
>
>
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