Hi
I was recently asked to convert Ascii to ebcdic packed for a os390 mainframe, I'm using the packeb function but the client says it is not the desired output. I'm a bit clueless of the mainframe enviroment, if there is someone that can advise.
I wrote a small script just to test the output here goes:...

Difinition & Layout
These are 6 fields of a 97 field layout
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FLD W 80 A
FLD-1 FLD 2 P VALUE 001 Pic s9(3) Comp-3
FLD-2 FLD +02 2 P VALUE 001 Pic s9(3) Comp-3
FLD-3 FLD +04 3 P VALUE 00000 Pic s9(5) Comp-3
FLD-4 FLD +07 2 P VALUE 000 Pic s9(3) Comp-3
FLD-5 FLD +09 3 P VALUE 00000 Pic s9(5) Comp-3
FLD-6 FLD +11 5 A VALUE 'FNUT ' Pic x(5)
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Code
Here is the code I tried. I don't know how to test the output I currently send it to the client,to test it on the mainframe, but if you know of a win32 viewer that I can use to test the output for OS390, will be awsome.
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#!c:\perl\bin\perl -w

use Convert::IBM390 qw(:all);


unless (open(OUTPUT, ">a2e.txt")) {
        die ("cannot open configuration file \n");
}

@var=("001","001","00000","000","00000","FNUT");

foreach(@var)
{
print $_;
}

#$template='p1.0 p1.0 p3.0 p1.0 p3.0 E5';
$template='p3 p3 p5 p3 p5 E5';

$ebout = packeb($template, @var);

print OUTPUT ($ebout);

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Thank You

In reply to Ascii to ebcdic packed for os390 by PugSA

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