You may not want to do this... Does the data contain and packed or zoned decimals? If so, the dd conversion will corrupt your data.
Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos... Mike Segel On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:51 AM, SRINIVAS SURASANI <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm downloading mainframe files using FTP in binary mode on to local file > system. These files are now seen as EBCDIC. The information about these > files are > (a) fixed in length ( each > field in record has fixed length). > (b)each record is of some KB > ( This KB is fixed for each record). > > Now here I'm able to convert this EBCDIC files to ASCII files with in unix > file system using the following command. > dd if <INPUTFILENAME> of <OUTPUTFILENAME> conv=ascii,unblock cbs=150 > 150 being the record size. > > So, here I want this conversion to be done in Hadoop to leverage the use of > parallel processing. I was wondering is there any record reader available > for this kind of files and also about how to convert Packed Decimals COMP(3) > files to ASCII. > > Any suggestions on how this can be done. > > > Srinivas
