Converting any file from one code page to another
The easiest way on z/OS to convert a file from one code page to another is to use the standard unix iconv utility. The sample below is using a traditional batch job, but you can see it can just as easily be run from a shell environment or a shell script. //STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * SH iconv -f UTF-8 -t IBM-1140 inputfile.utf8 outputfile.ebcdic /* // ebcdic - Windows SH iconv -f IBM-1140 -t IBM-1252 inputfile.ebcdic outputfile.ibm1252 // Windows - ebcdic SH iconv -f IBM-1252 -t IBM-1140 inputfile.ibm1252 outputfile.ibm1140 // ebcdic - utf8 SH iconv -f IBM-1140 -t UTF-8 inputfile.ebcdic outputfile.utf8 //