Paul, Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and get back to you all once I recover it.
Jake On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > >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. > > > The OP sent me, privately, a sample of his data. Excerpts from > my analysis/reply to him: > > It was apparently a PDS containing several (perhaps 5) Rexx EXECs. > ... > Apparently a TRANSMIT OUTDATASET() was performed. That output > data set, about 100kB, was FTPed to the PC in ASCII mode. Is > the EBCDIC instance lost from z/OS? > ... > Recovery is tedious. I haven't the resources to help you further. > Some of the members (a little more than half the content) had > sequence numbered lines; those numbers could be useful markers > in reconstructing the data. > > [Abby Sciuto or Penelope Garcia would do it in seconds.] > > You might take this back to IBM-MAIN. ... But, please, > answer completely any questions people ask you; don't > expect others to do all the detective work. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
