Re: FTP problem in record Truncation

Venu,

You will probably be better off using a character from the invariant
character set (characters that do not change code points between code
pages) as your line/record terminating character.
Non-alphanumeric invariant characters include:
  + < = > % & * " ' ( ) , _ - . / : ; ?
(Source: National Language Support Planning Guide, side note:
 lower-case characters are listed as invariant but they actually
 are not due to CCSID 5026/code page 290 (Japanese Katakana))

As someone else noted you are running into a EBCDIC to ASCII 
conversion problem which should be alleviated using an invariant
character.

Hope this helps,

John Dorn
I/NET, Inc.

Venu Gopal 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.
> 
> Thanx in advance for any help/suggestion. Good day.
> 
> Best Regards,
> VenuGopal
> 
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