Re: FTP or IFS?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

If you're building the file yourself with the IFS routines, then it 
seems to me you must be putting the characters there yourself.  They 
wouldn't be added automatically.

Perhaps a bug?

The only other thing I can think of... maybe you put options(*string) on 
the prototype for the write() API?  (It belongs on many of the other IFS 
APIs, but not on write())  Though, having said that, if your length is 
being passed correctly, this still shouldn't cause nulls to appear.  So 
this is probably not what's happening.

Perhaps you're simply getting the length wrong and picking up data from 
beyond the end of your variable (of which, x'00' would be the most 
common data to pick up.)

Hard to say without debugging/troubleshooting the code.  But I would 
guess it's a bug in your program.


On 12/10/2010 8:39 AM, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've got a question about carriage-return and linefeed characters in a
> stream file.  I am building a text file in the IFS using routines from
> Scott Klement's IFS e-book.  (Thanks Scott!)  Ultimately, we want to
> schedule a job to build this file and FTP it to a remote site directly
> from the AS/400.  In testing I've FTPed the file to my PC from the IFS via
> a DOS FTP command.  I used an ASCII transfer.  The recipient wants to
> verify the file before we go into production.  They don't have us set up
> for FTP yet so I uploaded the file to their web site for content
> verification.  They told me that there were characters at the end of each
> "record" that needed to be removed.  At first I didn't notice anything but
> when I looked at the file but when I opened it with a hex editor I see the
> hex characters 00 00 0D 0A at the end of each record which would seem to
> be two nulls, a carriage-return, and a linefeed.  Is it likely that these
> are being inserted when I am building the IFS file or could they be
> getting added in the EBCDIC to ASCII translation in the FTP process?  The
> recipient says that they only want a carriage-return.  Thoughts?
>
>
> Dave Parnin