My apologies if this posts twice.

We are wondering if SQL Server's DTS can easily convert
packed EBCIDIC (SP.) fields to unpacked ASCII fields.

If so, how do I do this (process)?

Thanks,

Wil

William Boyd
GE Retail Sales Finance
william.t.boyd (AT) ge (DOT) com

Not natively...that's generally handled by drivers,
providers you use to access data that may be in EBCDIC
format. Most systems using EBCDIC provide the ability to
export text files in ASCII format.
If you want to do your own conversion, you can search the
internet and find a lot of tools and resources including
translation tables if you want to write your own conversion.
Seems it would be simpler to just have the files output in
ASCII format

-Sue

On Fri, 14 May 2004 05:42:54 -0700, "William boyd"
<william.t.boyd (AT) ge (DOT) com> wrote: