Rex and John, I thought of that fact, that packed data wouldn't get translated correctly. That's why I think the best solution would be to buy the tape drive and software, which would handle all of the data conversions. I guess I won't have to worry about it though.
Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer P&H Mining Equipment 414-671-7849 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pommier, Rex R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:46 pm Subject: Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD To: [email protected] > That was the point I was inferring, that Eric asked for something that > would convert to ASCII. Such a conversion via FTP would corrupt the > binary data. Not converting it would preserve the binary/packed > decimalbut wouldn't accomplish the ASCII conversion. Eric's post > stating the > possibility of getting a SCSI-attached 3490 tape and doing it in-house > looks to me like the best solution because they would have access > (hopefully) to the record layouts and so be able to preserve the data > without corruption. > > Another option would be just hoping you don't need any of this > data, and > if so, find a service bureau (or a friendly z-based shop) that would > contract to migrate data on an as-needed basis. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. > > > > 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 > ASCIImachine. > > -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
