On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:20:14 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >on 10/24/2011 at 04:10 PM, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> said: > >>A programmer I am working with is getting a file from Unix which will >>be sent to the mainframe. This will be using FTP. > >What are the original and final character sets? > >>Is there a way to keep the CRLF command at the end of each line? > >Do you mean that the original file has CRLF rather than LF? Also, CRLF >isn't a command just a CR character followed by an LF character. The >easiest way is to use binary mode. > >>It seems the Unix CRLF is x'0A' whereas the mainframe is x'25' > >No; the Unix new line indication is LF (X'0A'), the windoze/DOS new >line indication is CRLF (X'0D0A') and the z/OS new line indication for >EBCDIC is NEL (X'25'). The LF and NEL represent new line, which is >logically distinct from CRLF. > Ummm. Not quite. z/OS Unix System Services uses EBCDIC NL (x'15') as the new line indication. Then it violates the specifications of the code pages by translating LF(x'0A')<->NL(x'15') and NEL(x'85')<->LF(x'25') converting ASCII(ISO8859-1)<->EBCDIC(IBM-1047). You once said that CMS, which doesn't perform this twiddle 'DTRT'.
But, IMO, you have supplied less disinformation than any other contributor to this thread. >BTW, do local politics allow going directly to z/OS instead of >through the W2008 box? > Of course not. If it allowed the sensible solution, it wouldn't be politics. More questions for Lizette: o How is the UNIX file "receive[d] ... placed" on the Windows server: - Samba (details)? - other (specify; details)? My understanding is that while the Samba protocol is capable in some cases of performing ASCII<->EBCDIC translation, it will never perform newline conversion. A plausible motivation is either not changing the file size or making the conversion bijective. When the file is transferred (by FTP?) from the Windows server to z/OS, where does the FTP client run? Where does the FTP server run? And, for other contributors to this thread: o Why, nowadays, does anyone afflicted with Windows use Notepad rather than Wordpad? And why does the silly-assed Solaris/Firefox spellchecker complain about "bijective"? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
