RE: FTP from VSE to iseries

["Panayiotis Petrou" <panayiotis.petrou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We tried various options and have been able bypass the problem with the
following options. Thanks for your help.

EBCDIC                            
MODE B                            
LSITE LRECL 7250                  
CD SPTOOLS                        
PUT %L4FEACT,ESDS,F L4FEACT       

Panayiotis (Pete) Petrou
zVSE and Websphere MQ System Administration
Information Technology Division
Bank Of Cyprus
Tel 357-22-12-8473
 
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: FTP from VSE to iseries


On 29/04/2010, at 3:11 PM, Panayiotis Petrou wrote:

> Has anyone transferred data containing packed fields and how did you  
> get
> around issues like the new line character x'15'

Transferring in Binary mode should resolve that. Although given that  
both systems are EBCDIC then I'd expect EBCDIC mode to work too.

What sort of file are your transmitting? Given that it contains packed- 
numeric fields it is likely a database file and therefore has a fixed  
length. Isn't there a way to tell the VSE system to expect fixed- 
length records? There must be VSE-specific commands exposed through  
the VSE FTP server that allow you to define characteristics of the  
transfer much as OS/400 FTP supports TRIM, LISTFMT, NULLFLDS, and  
CRTCCSID. Run HELP SERVER from within the OS/400 FTP client for more  
information.

A quick Google search suggest that something like the VSE command
	DEFINE FILE ... RECFM=F LRECL=record-size
might do it.

I did that Google search about half an hour after the original message  
arrived here and IT WAS ALREADY IN GOOGLE!!! How good is that?  
Midrange-L must be a high-traffic watched site.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
    FlyByNight Software         OS/400, i5/OS Technical Specialists

    http://www.flybynight.com.au/
    Phone: +61 2 6657 8251   Mobile: +61 0411 091 400        /"\
    Fax:   +61 2 6657 8251                                   \ /
                                                              X
                  ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail  / \
--------------------------------------------------------------------