Hi. I am working on a copybook parser and converting the given mainframe EBCDIC data to ASCII. I am using Convert::IBM390 module. COBOL copybook looks like below: 
15  ABC-NO      PIC S9(09) COMP.
15  ABC-ACCT-NO PIC S9(11) COMP-3.
15  XYZ-NO      PIC S9(04) COMP.
15  XYZ-NAME    PIC X(10).

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Perl code using unpackeb function from Convert::IBM390: 
@fields = unpackeb('i, p6.0, s e10', $record);

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When I print the unpacked data, the COMP and COMP-3 fields are giving wrong values. For the 1st field, the value should be '000679243'. But its converting as '1565220416'. PS:The string fields are getting converted properly. Please help. Thanks.

In reply to Converting Mainframe EBCDIC data by Anonymous Monk

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