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Re: <tech> Gentran and EBCDIC
Thanks William, I appreciate your offer and your response. I will start to
investigate a converter. I do have another question concerning this project
for anyone in the group to answer.
VDA... On the standards disc there is a VDA directory containing a setup
program for the VDA standards. Does anyone know if these standards will work
with Gentran:Director or do they only work with Gentran:NT Server?
Also, I sent an email to tech supoprt at SC and they say they do support
EBCDIC but they have not heard of VDA (very nice). However; they did not go
into detail on how they support EBCDIC.
Thanks again all,
Sean Brown
GIC, Auburn Hills, MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "William R. Lorenz" <
To: "Sean Brown" <
Cc: "EDI-L" <
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] <tech> Gentran and EBCDIC
> Sean,
>
> While I don't think that GENTRAN will be able to process a file of the
> EBCDIC character set, you can first convert the file to ASCII / Unicode, a
> character set that should work on your platform, before processing it.
>
> The conversion can be done using a simple Perl script and use of the
> Convert::EBCDIC module within that script. The Convert::EBCDIC module is
> available as an ActivePerl PPM <http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/>
> for Win32 platforms such as Windows NT, 2000, or 2003; it is also
> available in the CPAN archives for Linux and UNIX platforms. The Perl
> interpreter and Convert::EBCDIC module is free <http://www.perl.org/>.
>
> I'm sure there are also plenty of free libraries to help with EBCDIC to
> ASCII character conversion in the language of your choice. The UltraEdit
> text editor <http://www.ultraedit.com/> will also do conversions; however,
> using UltraEdit wont help to automate the character conversion process.
>
> If you need any help installing Perl or writing the script, let me know.
> I'm getting a head-start here on my community service for the week! ;)
>
> Hope this helps. Take care, Sean.
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Sean Brown wrote:
>
> > I support one of European locations that will be using VDA 4098 with a
> > customer. Sterling Commerce support was able to help with the mapping
> > information needed However; I have also learned that this customer sends
> > the files in EBCDIC format which I am unfamilier with.
>
> > Does anyone know if Application Integrator or more specifically Gentran
> > Director recognizes EBCDIC and if not, what are some of my alternatives?
>
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