Conversion to Packed Data

[Venkatesh Kumar]

Hi:

I am trying to generate a file that will be fed to AS 400.Part of the data ,
for eg :character position from 10-20 of every line in the file has to be
put in EBCDIC format .

Is there any utility classes (Open Source ) to convert data to packed data
format ??

I have found some sample code to convert decimal data (numeric data ) to packed format but none to convert to alpha numeric.In my case ,I will also have to convert some alphanumeric data into EBCDIC format.

I greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks ,

Venkatesh Kumar

[Stan James]

Here http://mindprod.com/products.html#TRT is a class called TRT that claims to do the translation. TRT is a System 360 assembler instruction used for all kinds of translations. Cute name for the class.

Here: http://www.room42.com/store/computer_center/java_translate.shtml is some code that I can't say I like very well. I'd rather use the ASCII character as an index into an array of EBCDIC characters.

Google for "ASCII EBCDIC conversion" or "ASCII EBCDIC java" for lots more.