RE: why ftp packed ascii to ifs doesnt work

Probably a big-endian vs. little-endian issue.
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~verts/cs32/endian.html

iSeries is big-endian
PCs are little-endian.

The bit swapping going on would effect packed data.


Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:17 PM
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Subject: why ftp packed ascii to ifs doesnt work

I'm trying to understand why a ftp put (with bin) from Win Server
to iSeries ifs alters the file data if packed data exists in the file.
I thought "bin" would move the file as is. There should be no 
ascii to ebcdic
in going to the ifs. Dealing with about a hundred different 
files and many packed fields. 
I see (thru google) this same problem exists in the unix and 
mainframe world.
(Was probably sleeping thru this part of Computing 101..)
Jim  
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