>
> If you "export" the IMS data out to flat textfiles,
> and then transfer them via ftp in "ASCII" mode, the
> conversion will be done automagically for you.
>
> Alternatively if on Unix the "dd" utility will
> do the conversion for you.
One problem that we encountered with using dd to convert EBCDIC to
ASCII (in a completely different situation so it might not apply here)
is that brackets came out as the characters having octal values 342
and 343 in ASCII.
Pat
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