Re: AS to PC data transfer

[jdraper@xxxxxxx (Jerry Draper)]

>     We have NS router to connect to AS/400. I am facing with a problem. I
>have a file in which the last field is character field. Some records
>contain blanks in the last field. When I am downloading the data to DOS as
>text file, I am not getting the last field if it is blank. For example,
>suppose there are two records with
>
>123 aaa 15  asdf
>100 as    11
>
>     The fourth field in the second record is blank. When I am downloading
>this to DOS as text file and checking, I am getting carriage return for the
>first record after 'asdf' and for the second record immediately after 11.
>Instead I shoudl get carriage return after  11 <blanks>
>
>     I tried to do FTP. EVen this also gave me same result. I suspect there
>is some problem while transferring data from AS to DOS or to any other
>platform. When I am downloading data to DOS using NS Transfer utility, it
>has 7 Disk Output Options
>
>ASCII Text
>DOS Random
>Basic Sequential
>Basic Random
>DIF
>No Conversion
>DOS Random type 2
>
>     I am specifying ASCII Text. Is there any solution for this problem?
>Any help is grately appreciated. Thanx in advance for the help /
>suggestions.

You need to have an output file type that allows for fixed length text where
the trailing blanks are not truncated.  Synapse (free demo at
www.synapse.com) has such a feature in their file transfer.  Netsoft took
their display and printer software but wrote their own file xfer so this is
a place where there is product differentiation.  Synapse also supports dBase
download so that the data dictionary is extracted from the DDS specs and
comes down with the data.  Tech support is free and upgrades are free.

Regards, Jerry

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