EBCDIC to ASCII conversion in SSIS

I tried to setup a flat file data source that has code page 37 (EBCDIC)

Then I have a flat file destionation that is ASCII.

And inbetween I have tried several different data flow conversion tasks liked Data Conversion, and Derived Column. But I keep getting errors about different code pages.

I also tried to load the EBCDIC data into a SQL Server DB, and it complains about different code page.

Has anyone been able to do this with SSIS out of the box, without any extra components ?

Clarence

EBCDIC 037 is one of the EBCDIC defined in SQL Server you have to use the collation below to create your database, tables and columns and you have to use Nvarchar and SSIS datatype for Nvarchar. To export to ASCII just do convert to Varchar before the export. Some EBCDIC code pages are not defined in SQL Server the link below shows those covered. Hope this helps.

SQL_EBCDIC037_CP1_CS_AS

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180175.aspx

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Wow, that's great !! I'm able to import it into a DB table now, but when I do something like this

SELECT

CONVERT(varchar(2), Rec_Type) Rec_Type

FROM dbo.CCP_FAC_EBCDIC

it's giving me an error:

An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

any ideas ?

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I don't think your convert to varchar definition is correct because nvarchar is double bytes that is one nvarchar is two varchar so the question is what is the size of the data you are exporting to ASCII. You could avoid the error by using SELECT INTO with the convert to varchar if the varchar is not big enough to be destination for your nvarchar your SELECT INTO will fail. Hope this helps.

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Thank you so much for your help !! I just used Convert to nvarchar instead of varchar and it works fine !

You're a life saver !

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ClarenceC wrote:

Thank you so much for your help !! I just used Convert to nvarchar instead of varchar and it works fine !

You're a life saver !

I am glad I could help.