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  3. January 2003

RE: VAX to AS/400 packed field conversion problem

At 15:04 01/07/2003, Uros Davidovic wrote:

Clare,

Thanks, but we are actually trying to do this without any programs,
using maybe an FTP switch (I know there is an option somewhere to
specify a CCSID when transferring files, just cannot remember where...)
or through CL commands on the AS/400 and possibly a table that would
convert the character set ID of the VAX to EBCDIC when doing a
CPYFRMSTMF...

I think you're heading for trouble there. FTP doesn't know anything about fields. It will convert from one character set to another, but that's not the same issue. You need to either convert everything to a text format before using FTP, or you can use a BINary FTP transfer and take care of character set translation yourself.

Can the VAX mount a NFS share? If so, you may be able to publish a database on the AS400 that you can access directly from the VAX. AS400 can mount an external NFS database too.


Pete Hall
pbhall@ameritech.net
http://www.pbhall.us/


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