Easytrieve Plus and EBCDIC data format files

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator
• Easytrieve Plus Report Generator Toolkit

Issue/Introduction

How does Easytrieve handle EBCDIC data format files?

Does it translate files into ASCII and then generate reports? Does it need any other tool/utility for the translation?

 

Resolution

Easytrieve reads, writes, and updates standard IBM flat files, VSAM, DB2, DATACOM, IDMS, SUPRA, and TOTAL files in EBCDIC format on the mainframe.

It does the same for ASCII files under UNIX including ORACLE, INGRES, OPENINGRES, DB2, IDMS, and SYSBASE. On the mainframe, Easytrieve handles EBCDIC files. On UNIX, it handles ASCII.

To convert from EBCDIC to ASCII or from ASCII to EBCDIC, you need Easytrieve Plus Report Generator Toolkit. This product includes many ready-to-use macros including CONVEA and CONVAE. CONVEA and CONVAE convert EBCDIC to ASCII and ASCII to EBCDIC.