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.

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> -----Original Message-----
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> 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-----
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> 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
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