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Introduction
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The primary purpose of this document is to provide a consolidated resource of information about application migrations between Mainframe systems and Windows or UNIX systems supported by Micro Focus technologies. The concepts available may be used regardless of the direction of the migration. A subset of moving or migrating an application is the data file management involved when moving, sharing and possibly converting data files.

A special "Thank you" to Larry Simmons of Micro Focus for providing much of the information that is presented in this series of white papers and sample programs.

Data File Management, White Papers
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This section provides examples and links to documents that describe the management of data sharing or application migration between an IBM Mainframe System and a Windows System using Micro Focus. The information provided will cover data file transfer, conversion and comparison of non-relation or traditional sequential files and VSAM, Keyed Sequential Data Sets (KSDS).

Data File Abstract
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This is a link to a white paper that provides a quick overview of the data management tasks required to migrate or share data between a Mainframe system and a Windows or UNIX system.

Data File Transfer
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This is a link to a white paper that provides a quick overview of the data file transfer options available when transferring or sharing data between a Mainframe system and a Windows or UNIX system.

Data File Conversion
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This is a link to a white paper that provides a quick overview of the possible data file conversion options available when migrating or sharing data between a Mainframe system and a Windows or UNIX system.

The  self-study session for data file conversion  includes a discussion about file conversion with a focus on EBCDIC and ASCII content conversion. The session includes a hands-on exercise that does an actual conversion of a data file that includes packed and binary data. The exercise shows how to do file content conversion at the field level.

Data File Comparison (or Validation)
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This is a link to a white paper that provides a quick overview of the possible data file comparison options available when testing an application or data that has been moved between a Mainframe system and a Windows or UNIX system.

The  self-study session for comparing data files  uses a generated COBOL program to compare two data files. The session includes a hands-on exercise that does an actual data file comparison.

File Formats for Micro Focus
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This is a link to a white paper that provides a quick overview of the various Micro Focus File Formats provided for the Windows and UNIX environments and supported by Micro Focus

Application Migration & Data Sharing
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This section provides examples and links to documents that describe the challenges and solutions of migrating or sharing data between systems of different architectures. The following link discusses some of the  Possibilities and Considerations for Application Migration and Data Sharing .

File Conversion and File Formatting
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This is a link to a white paper that provides a quick overview of the various  File Formats and Conversion Techniques  provided for the Windows and UNIX environments and supported by Micro Focus

File Conversion, ASCII and EBCDIC
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This is a link to a white paper with an example that provides a quick overview of the various  File Content Conversion, ASCII and EBCDIC  provided for the Windows and UNIX environments and supported by Micro Focus

A Data File Transition Cycle with Various Convert and Compare Processes
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This link provides an example of the  various conversion and comparison processes  that move data from EBCDIC encoded environments to ASCII encoded environments and from a Mainframe format to a format that may be easily imported into an excel spreadsheet. This suite of sample programs and documentation may be downloaded for training and evaluation purposes.

Managing a File Properties Repository
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This link provides an example of  managing a File Properties Repository . This capability and the information it provides is quite useful when supporting applications or migrating an application (source code, control information and data) from a Mainframe System to a Linux, UNIX or Windows System using Micro Focus technologies. This suite of sample programs and documentation may be downloaded for training and evaluation purposes.

Numeric Fields, Special Considerations
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The following table is a list of white papers that provides more detailed information about the four common numeric formats used on an IBM Mainframe.

Summary
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The purpose of this document is to provide a consolidated resource of information about application migrations (both application assets and data files) between Mainframe systems and Windows or UNIX systems supported by Micro Focus technologies.

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Downloads and Links to Similar Pages
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This item will provide a link to  an ASCII or EBCDIC translation table.  A column for decimal, hexadecimal and binary is also included.

Check out  The VSAM - QSAM Connection  for more examples of mainframe VSAM and QSAM accessing techniques and sample code.

Check out  The Number Connection  for more examples of mainframe numeric encoding techniques and sample code.

This document provides a quick summary of the  File Status Key  for VSAM data sets and QSAM files.

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Glossary of Terms
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About SimoTime Enterprises
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