RE: Maximum Record Length of PF!!

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Instead of a put to LIBRARY/FILE, have your Unix folks do this:

quote site na 1 (puts it into namefmt 1 mode)
put unixfile /somedir/somefile (now it's a stream file in the IFS!)


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Maximum Record Length of PF!!
> From: "Chaudhary, Sachin (GE Equipment Services, Consultant)"
> <sachin.chaudhary@xxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, March 15, 2005 2:24 pm
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks Michael, but how do we do that? 
> I know its a dumb question but never worked on Stream File!
> Our UNIX team get the data from AAR server, and then FTP to AS400 server, the 
> datafile which gets created on AS400 defaults to a PF! I verified on UNIX the 
> record length is indeed > 32766.
> 
> Rgds,
> Sachin
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:19 PM
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> Subject: RE: Maximum Record Length of PF!!
> 
> 
> 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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