You might try looking at: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/javafaq.html#ascii or checking the newgroups at: news://ncc.hursley.ibm.com/ Dean Ron_Senykoff at beaerospace.com writes: > I finally got Websphere Application Server to connect to the AS/400 only to > get my results back in EBCDIC! Uggh. I know I could implement some code > in the servlets to translate it, but is there a way that I can get it > translated for me first? I'm using the DB2 client (installed on the > server) to connect directly into the database. It's JD Edwards and I'm > only reading data to present it to the web. If I use the JDE ODBC driver > data will come back in english, but isn't ODBC slower? Especially when I'm > running Websphere and DB2/400... > > TIA, > -Ron