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I'm making a C# program that will be able to dynamically read an IBM HOST Copybook written in COBOL and generate an SQL table off of it. Once the table is generated I can upload a file into my program and it will read, convert from IMB-37 and insert the file into that sql table. So far I can handle almost anything, although I'm running into some issues with REDEFINES. For example: 10 SOME-FIELD PIC 9(3) COMP-3. SCRRB205 4117 10 SOME-OTHER-FIELD REDEFINES 3041-17 4117 SOME-FIELD PIC X(2). 3041-17 I understand that the redefine takes the place of the field above it in this case, although what i

I need to write a 'simple' util to convert from ASCII to EBCDIC? The Ascii is coming from Java, Web and going to an AS400. I've had a google around, can't seem to find a easy solution (maybe coz there isn't one :( ). I was hoping for an opensource util or paid for util that has already been written. Like this maybe? Converter.convertToAscii(String textFromAS400) Converter.convertToEBCDIC(String textFromJava) Thanks, Scott JTOpen , IBM's open source version of their Java toolbox has a collection of classes to access AS/400 objects, including a FileReader and FileWriter to access native AS400