RE: Maximum Record Length of PF!!

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sounds like a good candidate for a stream file. FTP it to a stream file,
then copy the stream data to a physical file. This AAR place must have
longer than 32766 record length on their files?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Maximum Record Length of PF!!
> From: "Chaudhary, Sachin (GE Equipment Services, Consultant)"
> <sachin.chaudhary@xxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, March 15, 2005 1:06 pm
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi
> 
> We receive critical data from AAR every 30 minutes  and the problem started 
> occurring recently, when the files FTPed to AS400 started exceeding max 
> record length of 32766 characters. I am loosing data though it is not very 
> often, however a cause of major concern due to criticality and large volume 
> of data involved, making it very difficult to recover.
> Should we go for stream file...Can somebody help?
> 
> Rgds,
> Sachin
> 
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