Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1952

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike, when you say that there is a "pipe" between the two names, is it a 
single (|) or a double(||)?  If a double, that would be 19 characters.

msmith6@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> Your correct.  Sorry I have been bouncing around so many variations of 
> my testing it's driving me crazy.  I set the LRECL to 18 I still get 
> the data trucation message.  If I set it to 19 I see the record on the 
> mainframe with x25 on the end.  
>
> Its like the FTP server/client won't use that for the end of record 
> delimiter.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has seen this and if there is an FTP 
> command that I'm not aware of.  I might just have the developer use 
> DECS (allow Domino to access DB2 tables) and write it to a table but I 
> would still like to solve this...
>
> mike.
>
>
> >   4. Re: FTP of IFS file to Mainframe (Wayne McAlpine)
> > from: Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: Re: FTP of IFS file to Mainframe
> >
> > Mike, the field lengths don't seem to add up.  If both name fields 
> > are 8 
> > characters, then you have 'xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxLF' for a total of 18 
> > characters.
> >
> > msmith6@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I'm going to post this to the Domino forum as well because that 
> > is the 
> > > application that is creating the file but anyway here's my problem.
> > >
> > > The Domino application creates a file in the IFS 
> > > (under /lotus/domino/stc).  The file has a CCSID of 37.  The 
> > file 
> > > consist of two fields, the first 8 bytes is name followed by a 
> > pipe 
> > > symbol.  The pipe symbol is followed by another name.
> > > This is were is gets tricky.
> > >
> > > The record ends with x25, or LF.
> > >
> > > When I view this via option 5, I see the data nicely formatted. 
> > Press 
> > > F10 to turn on hex and I see all the characters correctly with 
> > x25 at 
> > > the end of each line.
> > > If I try to transfer this to our mainframe using the following :
> > > (login)
> > > quote cdup   <--Sets mainframe dataset to null
> > > quote site lrecl=15    <--sets record length to 15, which is 
> > correct.> namefmt 1   <-- to get to IFS files
> > > put /lotus/Domino/prod/Apps/file.dat 'tech.test.domino.upload'
> > >
> > > I get a message that data has been truncated.  When I view it on 
> > the 
> > > Mainframe, I only see on record.  Problem with end of record I 
> > suppose.> 
> > > I thought that maybe if I put the file in ASCII mode it would 
> > ake a 
> > > difference so I tried.
> > > CPY OBJ('/lotus/domino/prod/Apps/file.dat') TOOBJ('FILEA.dat') 
> > TOCCSID> (*PCASII) DTAFMT(*TEXT)
> > > I tried the same FTP sequece, same result.
> > >
> > > I would think that this is an FTP issure rather than a Domino 
> > one.  I 
> > > guess any application could just use x25 (LF) and not x25 x0D 
> > (LF/CR).> 
> > > Seems like a simple thing but this has been taking up way too 
> > much 
> > > time for an FTP deal.
> > >
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > Mike