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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R.
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> What will FTP do to any packed data in the datasets?
Standard answer: "It depends."
1. If transferred as a "plain" ASCII transfer, packed decimal fields
will get corrupted.
2. If transferred as a "binary" transfer, packed decimal fields are
preserved (indeed, the whole file remains EBCDIC).
Given Eric's description of the nature of the data, I'd probably do a
binary transfer and worry about translating it to ASCII (with
packed-decimal preservation/translation) when retrieving it on the ASCII
machine.
-jc-
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