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parsing the file

Based on the discussion of ORing values with characters in [1] which may generate "unusual" characters I suspect a botched conversion from EBCDIC may have messed with some of the data. If there are signed data fields then OP may need to read the original file and treat it as if it were binary data and do any needed  translation themselves to retrieve it. Not a task for the faint of heart.

[1] http://www.3480-3590-data-conversion.com/article-reading-cobol-layouts-4.html