Plus there are some programs that can read EBCDIC and convert between
the two.
Like Microfocus COBOL (shivers, crosses self).
Anyone know of any Linux utility that does that?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: eallen@kc.rr.com
> Cc: Kansas City Linux users
> Subject: Re: migration from mainframe to web
> 
> 
> FTP on the mainframe side has an option to convert EBCDIC to 
> ASCII.  You 
> may still need to process the data a bit to get it to work 
> with your DB, 
> but it is not that hard to do.
> 
> 
> 
> Ed Allen wrote:
> 
> > Forwarded message:
> > 
> >>Linux as a web server or proxy server shouldn't be anything 
> out of the
> >>usual. What part were you trying to get ideas for? For a 
> web server I
> >>usually use Apache w/ PHP and I use MySQL for light db 
> stuff (as most
> >>
> >>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, kool dude wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi all
> >>>I'm currently working on a enterprise data system
> >>>housed on s/390 with OS/390.We're currently planning
> >>>to make it web accessible with plans of moving it from
> >>>main frame because of the high costs and the need for
> >>>the web accessebility.Any suggestion about how we
> >>>could use linux for this.Any help would be greately
> >>>appreciated.
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> > Check with your IBM rep about running Linux in an LPAR.
> > Otherwise you must face converting your data from EBCIDIC
> > to ASCII at the very least.
> > 
> > You could then use your current software as the back end
> > and talk to the OS/390 through PPP over a channel interface.
> > While Linux talks to the world.
> > 
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