Re: sending save files from non-iSeries to iSeries

Well that would do it, alright!

Good find, man.

At 05:59 PM 9/27/2005, you wrote:

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

If you really want to be a bithead and see whether things are corrupt, you can look at the file directly. You can use something like WinHex on a PC or send the file to the IFS and use option 5 in WRKLNK (DSPF). SAVFs have 528-byte records, 512 of which is data, the last 16 is a sequence number and a checksum. The sequence is the 4 (IIRC) bytes at 513 and must be in order. I don't know where the total number of records is kept, however, to see whether it is all there.

How to have more fun than you ever wanted!

Not being a windows guy I busted out ghex (linux app) and took a look (I rhyme!). I expected to see a bunch of EBCDIC but to my surprise the save file was all ASCII. I've requested that the save file be re-sent.

James Rich

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