Re: FTP Question...NT-PC to AS/400

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:39 PM 8/12/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>        Is there a way to FTP a PC flatfile (binary file) to an AS/400 file
>without writing any conversion program on AS/400?
>        Details are as below:
>        This flat file has been created by dowloading a table on SQL Server
>in the native format. If you look at the data in the flat file, the numeric
>values are all special characters. I tried to FTP this flatfile in binary
>mode to a file on the AS/400 which has exactly the same data structure. But
>I couldn't really accomplish this task. Are there any preliminary steps that
>I am overlooking or I need to have a conversion program on the AS/400 to put
>the flatfile into the right file, once I get the file to AS/400 system.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Babu.

You might need to create a file (DDS or SQL) with the field layout you
need. Then the conversion happens on its own.

Good luck,


Vernon Hamberg
System Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480
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