On 22 June 2014 03:49, Linda Mooney <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for an EBCDIC viewer for Windows, to view flat datasets that > were created on the mainframe.
I usually use the HxD editor for this. http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd It's a general purpose hex editor with lots of bells & whistles, but it's easy to configure it to display only the text and not the hex. The biggest issue, imo, is dealing with the various representations of EBCDIC data on Windows. I don't so much mean code pages, but more line ending sequences, fixed vs variable length records, and the like. HxD doesn't honour line ending sequences, but it can be set to display an arbitrary number of characters per line, so for F or FB records it works very well. And if you are ever doubtful about some character or other, you can turn on hex display mode and see what's really there. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
