Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-12 Thread Jake anderson
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and get back to you all once I recover it. Jake On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: If you mean that they FTP

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-12 Thread Robert Prins
Jake, On 2012-06-12 07:54, Jake anderson wrote: Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and get back to you all once I recover it. I have done something like this in 2005(?). The XMIT file was screwed and I could not get it back, but the contents, a PL/I library

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:10:35 +0530, Jake anderson wrote: Are there any possibilities of converting TEXT file to XMIT format. Since TRANSMIT does this. some of our home grown IMS tools were XMITED improperly with TEXT file. So just trying to know if the TEXT file can be FTPed and received all

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Jake anderson
Unfortunately the pds was transmitted with .txt file some years ago but now am trying restore the pds members from text files. On Jun 11, 2012 5:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:10:35 +0530, Jake anderson wrote: Are there any possibilities of converting

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Ray Pearce
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: 11 June 2012 13:03 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Convert Text to XMIT Unfortunately the pds was transmitted with .txt file some years ago but now am trying

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread McKown, John
If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an EBCDIC to ASCII to EBCDIC tranlation which include non

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Williamson, James R
@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 7:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Convert Text to XMIT Unfortunately the pds was transmitted with .txt file some years ago but now am trying restore the pds members from text files. On Jun 11, 2012 5:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Jake anderson
and receive that file. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 7:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Convert Text to XMIT Unfortunately the pds was transmitted with .txt file some

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:32:33 +0530, Jake anderson wrote: Unfortunately the pds was transmitted with .txt file some years ago but now am trying restore the pds members from text files. Are the text files corresponding to the PDS members accessible to you? (Where?) If on z/OS, copy them to PDS

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAHTvvRUW4Ts5SsiQ3u=iUr-b_t5Y7S=x0cqxgtcsrr3qfbk...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/11/2012 at 12:10 PM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com said: Are there any possibilities of converting TEXT file to XMIT format. What are you asking? If you have a bunch of EBCDIC flat files you can certainly