I seem to recall using the iconv command under BPXBATCH to do this in the past. I can try to find my JCL, but you may be able to research it on your own just as quickly.
-- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 [email protected] "Think you can, think you can't, either way you'll be right." ~ Henry Ford > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: JCL sample needed > > Maybe use an awk acript to change it? Use the dreaded BPXBATCH or its > replacement from JZOS to execute the script in batch. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jousma, David > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: JCL sample needed > > All, > > Been scratching my head all afternoon on this. I have a text file in > mainframe unix filesystem that is ascii format. Bottom line is that in > batch, I > need to do a find/replace for certain data in it. > > Interactively, I know I can do it via ISPF with the EA(edit ASCII) command. > But I need to do it in batch, so unless someone has a clever way to do it, I'm > thinking I need to copy it out to flat file, convert to EBCDIC, make the > changes, and then copy it back to the unix filesystem from whence it came, > converting it back to ascii and doing it in batch. > > Tried ICETOOL with OUTREC...BUILD...TRAN=ATOE, tried FTP, but don't seem > to have the correct incantation to make that work, and I've tried OGETX, but > no good results. > > Does anyone have some hints/tips to accomplish? > > Thanks, Dave > -- > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
