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ha.rajamohamed · Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 71 Topics: 22

I am having a flat file which is in EBCDIC format, also having few ASCII values in it. Is there any way to view the actual ASCII value other than using SORT/FILEAID.

I need it like... if we type "HEX ON" we can see the hexa decimal values. Like this is there any command in TSO for viewing the actual content of ASCII values.
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shekar123 · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:

Can you please post a sample of your Input Flat file and the description of the fields in the Input File ?
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ha.rajamohamed · Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 71 Topics: 22

ASCII contents like "

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:38 am Post subject:

ISPF version 1.7 browse has DISPLAY and FIND enhancements that handles ASCII and UTF-8, 16, etc

shekar123 · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:04 am Post subject:

ha.rajamohamed,

To find Invalid characters with the FIND command try out this.Hope it helps you.

[code:1:a30afbf49b]
Special characters that can be used in a picture string are:

= any character . invalid characters
@ alphabetic characters - non-numeric characters
# numeric characters '<' lower case alphabetics
$ special characters '>' upper case alphabetics

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ha.rajamohamed · Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 71 Topics: 22

semigeezer & sekar thanks for your information...

Bill Dennis · Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:15 am Post subject:

I don't know how you could have BOTH data types in the same file?!? Do you really mean non-displayable characters?
A file is either encoded in EBCDIC or ASCII. Your EBCDIC file may have non-alphanumeric hex values, but they would be different values if you copied the file to your PC in ASCII.
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