Amen. That's also my opinion. BTW, your REXX worked perfectly. Thanks.
Werner Von: John McKown <[email protected]> An: [email protected], Datum: 08.09.2014 16:26 Betreff: Re: FTP of EBCDIC file Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Werner Kuehnel <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not my creation, it was delivered by a bank for a test. Thanks for > your suggestions, but if there are no standard ftp commands I refuse to > work with that file. > Anyway, I tested your way and it almost worked, Unfortunately there are > packed fields in the records containing x'15' which are not a line end. > > Thanks, > Werner > If the bank is trying to send you EBCDIC information from a z/OS system, but needs it to survive transfer across non-z/OS systems, then the bank really needs to either use AMATERSE or TRANSMIT to put the data into a more transportable format. Those both result in an FB file, which can easily be binary ftp'ed from z/OS to Windows, then back to z/OS and restored. Doing a normal BINary FTP of variable data will just result in frustration and data corruption. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
