crlf lf nl comes to mind when going between platforms.  But I like John's
suggestion about checksum.

Rob Schramm

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017, 7:34 PM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Ron Thomas <ron5...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi .  We have customer users uploading sales data in  excel format in a
> > portal, once this file is uploaded a batch process will SFTP  the file
> from
> > here to a virtual machine and then to the mainframe . We are seeing that
> > there are many cases where all the rows the user entered in excel file is
> > not getting transmitted to virtual machine .
> >
> > How we can make sure that all the rows gets transmitted to virtual
> machine
> > , if all the rows gets transmitted then only transmit to mainframe else
> ?
> > is there any specific design considerations we need to follow ? Please
> > suggest valuable thoughts on this ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Ron T
> >
> >
> ​So, what is the customer using to send the file? It appears that this is
> what is failing. So that is what needs to be detected. And, at this point,
> I can't come up with anything better since I don't know what is being used.
> It might be upload via a web page, or ftp, or sftp, or ??? . In a general
> sense, I would say that the originating system needs to create a "checksum"
> of the data and upload both that and the data. The receiving system, linux
> on the VM, needs to regenerate the checksum and compare it to the
> transmitted checksum. If they are different, then take corrective action. I
> don't know what that would be.
>
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>
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
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