On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:16:18 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>>> I have a file on a WIN server with variable data records in EBCDIC and the >>>> correct end-of-line marker of x'0D25' ... > >Well, I don't know how the insane bank people generate _their_ file. >But I did it simply by creating a text file on UNIX. Then did a >"unix2dos" on it to change the LF to CRLF. I then used iconv -t >iso8859-1 -t ibm-1047 to create the ugly EBCDIC file. Finally I ftp >uploaded the EBCDIC file in binary to z/OS. > By "UNIX", you must mean "Linux" or some such ASCII system which separates lines with LF rather than NL, and that you ran iconv on that non-z/OS system also.
IBM adamantly refuses to admit that iconv violates a standard, or excuses itself with footnotes in various manuals. I hate EBCDIC! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
