[ale] signed numbers from as/400 file?

[mnmagee at earthlink.net (Matthew Magee)]

I asked a friend of mine who works with 400s and he sent me this.  He's 
ususally more specific with his help, but he is really busy this week.  Hope 
it helps.

	Matt,

	The field that the guy is using is probably a packed field.  He needs to
	create another logical or physical file to "explode" the field.  If he has
	iSeries Navigator V5R1 or later there is a graphical way to retrieve the
	information with out having to create DDS or anything.  There is some IBM
	notes on this if you need them.


On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:20 pm, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility to convert signed bytes from an AS/400
> into ascii text?  I'm ftp'ing a file down from an AS/400 and in on of
> the fields, I have 7 binary bytes.  It's not ebcdic, because the rest of
> the file is plain ASCII.  It's a number field, so I think it's some
> format that the AS/400 stores numbers in.
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> Does this make any sense to anyone?
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> Thanks,
> cB
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