Tail a file on Mainframe that needs conversion [closed]

Question

I want to tail a log file in Unix system services on a Mainframe LPAR that needs a ASCII to EBCDIC conversion?

Answer 1

tail /path/to/input | dd conv=ebcdic of=/dev/stdout

Or, to write to a file:

tail /path/to/input | dd conv=ebcdic of=/path/to/output

To convert the other way (EBCDIC to ASCII), use conv=ascii.

Answer 2

Using iconv:

tail /path/to/file | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047