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beefy80
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Nov 11, 2019

EBCDIC to ASCII conversion

Hello!   I am trying to convert a string from EBCDIC to ASCII however I have found out the hard way that the encoding function is not available in TCL / iRules on F5. I have been researching how...
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Leonardo_Souza
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Nov 11, 2019

The enconding command exists in the tcl version used in F5 but is not available via iRules as you pointed out.

[root@LABBIGIP1:Active:Changes Pending] images # tclsh
% encoding convertto ebcdic "EXAMPLE"
ÅçÁÔ×ÓÅ

When I try via iRules:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    log local0. [encoding convertto ebcdic "EXAMPLE"]
}
Nov 11 17:51:20 LABBIGIP1 err tmm2[22248]: 01220001:3: TCL error: /Common/test1 <HTTP_REQUEST> - invalid command name "encoding"     while executing "encoding convertto ebcdic "EXAMPLE""

One possible solution is to try to build the conversion yourself, using string map:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    log local0. [string map [list "Å" "b"] "Åbc"]
}
Nov 11 18:19:04 LABBIGIP1 info tmm5[22248]: Rule /Common/test1 <HTTP_REQUEST>: bbc

If you can't do the mapping this way, you will have to look mapping using hex or binary.