Richard,
Setting the ftp download type to ASCII will do the automatic conversion
to and from ASCII/EBCDIC.
Then you use the ftp locsite command to set the fixed length.
So do the below then your get and it will be in the format you want.
(fix length 80 example).
ASCII
LOCSITE FIX 80
Now do your get command.
Zachary Jones
Operations Systems Analyst
Northrop Grumman
City of Grand Rapids Michigan
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:56 -0800, Schuh, Richard wrote:
> 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
>
>
