Re: Attaching multiple AS/400's in the SAME Computer Room

Mark

At 08:32 PM 12/23/97, you wrote:
>Carl,
>
>At 09:16 PM 12/21/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>No I sure haven't. Same is true if you upload a file using CA/400 file
>>transfer.  How would the AS400 know what the external definition is??
>>Between two AS400s, you could same a file to a save file, then FTP the file
>>to the target AS400, the save file will be created on the fly and then
>>restore the file from the save file.  That should preserve your external
>defn.
>
> In that case, it's only a little better than SNADS.  The reason that the
>/400 should know to send the definition is that I sent it the "binary"
>command.  Of course, all that seems to mean in practice is that nothing
>gets translated.  I wish there were a way to specify retaining the
>container. It's also between two /400s, so it should know better.

There's another command, EBCDIC, that is an AS/400 extension to the
standard FTP command set. I don't THINK that it preserves file structure,
though that'd be a nice touch, as you say, especially since it IS
AS/400-specific already (or IBM-specific). Seems that the main use of this
is to avoid EBCDIC-ASCII/ASCII-EBCDIC conversions between EBCDIC-aware
systems. Problems arise with CCSIDs, though.

Cheers

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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