On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:20:01 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:50:11 -0500, Mark Steely wrote: > >>The file is just an ASCII txt file - instead of having new line at the >>end of each record it has a x'05'. >> How did that ever happen, anyway?
>Then you have no problem! You have a single logical line on the UNIX system >which is being transferred to the z/OS system as a single logical record. >There is no way on God's green Earth to tell a ftp server "Oh, by the way, >instead of a normal end of line indicator, please use x'05' as the logical >end of a line." > Outside God's green Earth, it might be possible to supply a custom translation table. Long ago, I tried this on CMS, where it may be easier. The result was a disaster: it applied the custom translation to the control socket as well as the data socket, causing the client not to recognize ends of command lines. >Tell the UNIXoids to use standard line endings of 0x0a. > Amen. >If this is impossible due to insanity at the other end, then you'll need to >upload the file to z/OS as RECFM U. Then write your own program to read the >file and parse it into logical records when it reads a x'05'. > This can be done with the "tr" utility at either the sending or receiving end (provided the file is received into a UNIX file. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
