Veriton has developed conversion software to take DB/400 files and convert them to straight ASCII for use on UNIX or PC systems. This software has the following features:

• IBM Packed, Zoned and Alpha field types supported to allow you to convert the common types of data held on the AS/400.
• Optional Type 1 journal file decoding. This appends the journal headers to end of line to allow positional scripts to work on either normal or journal files, thus saving additional development effort.
• Large file support (operating system dependent) so that you can quickly and easily convert files over 2GB in one go.
• Output file splitting: this specifies that the output file doesn't exceed either a certain number of records, or a certain size. This allows the migration large database files from an AS/400 and convert the data on a smaller machine (e.g. a PC server) even if the target platform doesn't support files as big as this.
• Optional input from UNIX standard input allowing you to pipe the data straight from a tape through the converter and into an ASCII file. This saves disk space (since no intermediate file is required on disk) and overall processing time because there is less disk I/O.

The software has been tuned for high performance: it can convert over 10GB/hour* conversion rate on a Sun Enterprise server using a 336MHz processor.

For more details about this software please contact us.

* Please contact us for further details of the benchmark conditions