We have a need to transfer text files (extension of TXT) from Linux
(running in an IFL LPAR) to CMS. The FTP is to be initiated by the CMS
user. The files are ASCII, as you might expect. The lines/records end in
a LineFeed (0A). I have not been able to come up with a way to translate
the data from ASCII to EBCDIC and write the records to a CMS file in the
FTP. I can transfer the file as "BINARY F nn" records and pass the
resultant file through a pipe ("PIPE < file | strip trailing 00 |
deblock linend 0a | xlate a2e | > newfile") that does the job, but it
seems that there ought to be a way to accomplish the entire job in FTP.
Everything I have tried other than the "BINARY F nn" results in a
message that the stream is too big.
What am I missing?
Regards,
Richard Schuh
