[490] in sapr3-soft
Re: Batch Input and numeric fields
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (devnull@no.spam.glo.be (Dave Null))
Sun Oct 12 14:08:09 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 11 Oct 1997 18:42:04 -0500
From: devnull@no.spam.glo.be (Dave Null) (by way of SAP Moderator <devnull@no.spam.glo.be>)
>I'm working on a SAP project (windows NT) and I have to connect SAP to
>our old COBOL systems through interfaces (Batch input).
>Is it possible to receive in SAP numeric fields in the COBOL format
>"comp" or "comp-3" which is a packed format ? Or do we have to translate
>those files in ASCII ?
Hi,
We had the same problem converting data from an AS/400, an EBCDIC
machine. On AS/400 we first unpacked the packed fields, by using a
copy of the original DDS with unpacked fields. This file get's
transferred to the SAP machine (ASCII). The AS/400 FTP takes care of
the EBCDIC-ASCII translation, except for the negative values ( hex
D0-D9 iso F0-F9 ).
We used an ABAP trick to convert these negative values.
Good Luck,
Andre
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