topic EBCDIC files in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453596#M169251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello !</P><P></P><P>Is it possible to read files , plain text files, coded in EBCDIC instead of ASCII ?</P><P></P><P>This is because many of our files are downloaded from a mainframe and if we could load'em in EBCDIC and have QV to translate them to ASC we would save mainframe cpu to convert them to ASC...</P><P></P><P>Not something so serious but it would be a nice optimization !</P><P></P><P>Thanks !</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 May 2013 14:18:20 GMT 2013-05-13T14:18:20Z EBCDIC files https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453596#M169251 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello !</P><P></P><P>Is it possible to read files , plain text files, coded in EBCDIC instead of ASCII ?</P><P></P><P>This is because many of our files are downloaded from a mainframe and if we could load'em in EBCDIC and have QV to translate them to ASC we would save mainframe cpu to convert them to ASC...</P><P></P><P>Not something so serious but it would be a nice optimization !</P><P></P><P>Thanks !</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 May 2013 14:18:20 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453596#M169251 2013-05-13T14:18:20Z Re: EBCDIC files https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453597#M169252 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's possible, but I have no idea how easy or hard it actually is. See <A _jive_internal="true" href="https://community.qlik.com/message/305651#305651">this post</A> for an example.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 May 2013 14:27:48 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453597#M169252 Gysbert_Wassenaar 2013-05-13T14:27:48Z Re: EBCDIC files https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453598#M169253 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Your post helped me !</P><P></P><P>It's CODEPAGE 500, from what I've seen in there...</P><P></P><P>Now I've got to test it here.</P><P></P><P>Thanks !</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 13 May 2013 14:40:09 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/EBCDIC-files/m-p/453598#M169253 2013-05-13T14:40:09Z