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  3. March 2005

Controlling end-of-record on FTP'ed files

How can I control the EOR characters on an FTP'ed file? By default, when I FTP a (flat) file from the /400 to a Unix box, FTP adds CR/LF to the end of the record. Sometimes I only want a CR.

I tried using the STRUCT R subcommand, but that gave me odd results. On a 2 record file, after the first record x'FF01' was appended and after the last x'FF03'. Is this supposed to happen?

The flat file was created via CRTPF w/ a record length of 3,000 (plenty of room to accommodate the data.) I am populating it via CPYTOIMPF. I tried playing w/ the RCDDLM() parm, but that only allows one character when copying to a database file (as opposed to the IFS.)

The only solution I have found is to do the CPYTOIMPF to the IFS then FTP it to the Unix system. I would have to make a bunch of changes to accommodate this, so I rather avoid it.

 TIA.

 -mark


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