Re: FTP problem in record Truncation

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Venu

At 05:42 PM 11/4/97 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Hi All,
>
>     This is somewhat related to a recent question on last truncating
>characters in records for FTP. Infact, I've sent the solution. But now I
>have a similar problem. We are sending some work files to PC from AS400
>daily. The last character for each record in the workfiles is '|'. On
>As400, when we see the file, it looks OK. But when FTP the file to PC, the
>last character is being translated as '!' (exclamation symbol). Some of our
>PC jobs are failing due to this inconsistancy. We want to replace this '|'
>character with someother character to identify the End of record. But if we
>replace it with someother character, we are not sure whether that character
>will be transmitted properly or not. We cannot go on trial and error basis.
>So I want to check any of you have similar problems and if so, which
>characters you've used.
>
>Note : I could use characters 0...9 but I dont want because the last field
>in the work file is a number, so for users, it will be confusing if we put
>0...9 as the last character.

There are additional parameters on the FTP command that let you specify the
CCSID. There are lots of these on the system, to cover all kinds of
international situations. Take a look at page 9-42 or so of the TCP/IP
manual v4 for more info. I don't know for sure which ones do what—someone
else may be able to tell you more.

HTH

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


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