On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 01:49:52 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
>
>The problem is not EBCDIC; you can do a transmission without code translation
>by FTP by using "binary"; the problem is the record oriented file structure of
>the
>z system compared to the byte oriented paradigm of FTP (unix tool). This works
>fine,
>
Not really. You still lose record boundaries if RECFM=VB.
>if you do FTP between two z systems, but if there are other systems in between,
>you're in a real mess.
>
The FTP standard provides a couple accommodations for this:
STRU R and
TYPE E; MODE B
both work, but they're generally unavailable on non-IBM systems.
Sometimes one can fool the IBM server from another client by:
BINARY # client thinks it's doing binary transfers.
quote TYPE E
quote MODE B # z/OS server thinks it's transmitting in block mode.
This is not directly available with a non-IBM host, but one can do it
from IBM to IBM, then transmit in BINARY to non-IBM, then decipher
by reversing the process.
-- gil
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