If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an EBCDIC to ASCII to EBCDIC tranlation which include "non printable" character, you don't get back the original file. The reason is because multiple EBCDIC characters translate to the same ASCII character. So there is NO way to know what the original character is.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jake anderson > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:41 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Convert Text to XMIT > > Dear List, > > Are there any possibilities of converting TEXT file to XMIT > format. Since > some of our home grown IMS tools were XMITED improperly with > TEXT file. So > just trying to know if the TEXT file can be FTPed and received all its > member to a PDS. > > Has anyone recovered the TEXT file to XMIT ? > > Jake > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
