Create your own table for hcitpstblconvert

[Tom Canavan]

Is it possible to create your own table for hcitpstblconvert. I’m receiving a file from an inbound interface that has been converted from EBCDIC to ASCII but leaves 2 characters converted wrong. I’m getting a hex a6 instead of hex 7c (the pipe) and a hex ac instead of hex 5e (the caret). Can I create a table to convert these characters and call it in hcitpstblconvert?

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[Charlie Bursell]

What version of Cloverleaf.  You may be better off just change encoding like cp037.

If you really need it you can build your own table

Build a table similar to the way hci_e2a and ibm_e2a are built.

Then simply call the available proc hcitpstblconvert with args {TABLENAME xxxx}

[Tom Canavan]

Thanks Charlie. I didn’t really want to build my own table but it was looking like I might need to. Then I got the answer from posting my question in a different way. It turned out when I was trying to convert using tr I was using the decimal value of the character and not the octal. A quick change and it’s working fine. I’m going to look into what CP037 will do. I’ve never worked with anything but binary and ascii encoding options.

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