RE: FTP Issue

It seems like you're just dealing with a packed decimal data issue, not an
EBCDIC to ASCII issue.  Since V3 I've been passing data off of AS/400's via
FTP and otherwise without having to worry about EBCDIC to ASCII conversion.
If the rest of your data is readable on the Unix system you're not dealing
with an EBCDIC character set problem.

Remember that what we call a "file" on the AS/400 is an ISAM database file,
not a formatless Unix file.  If you're dealing with special database columns
such as packed or signed data or date formats you'll have to extract the
data from the database into a simple file type before you send it through
FTP.

Sending packed data in FTP is not really a problem to be fixed.  The target
file does not really have data types, so some source data types aren't gonna
make sense.

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Systems Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matthew Gross
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:05 PM
To: Post AS-400 System Questions
Subject: FTP Issue


I am working at a client who has an AS/400 with release 4.x of the OS/400
operating system.
 
The problem we are experiancing is with FTP on the 400.  It appears that all
packed decimal fields send special characters to the receiving system.  The
receiving system is running UNIX.
 
>From what I gather at this level of the OS (4.x) there is no way to convert
EBCIDIC to ASCII and then send it via FTP.   
 
I understand that in later releases of the AS/400 Operating System this
problem with FTP is fixed.  
 
Is this True???   
What is the earliest level of the AS/400 OS that this issue is fixed?
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
M Gross