Re: FTP of file w/packed decimal data from S/390 to iSeries *PF

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael -

How about using Distributed Data Management (DDM)?  Do you have DDM on the 
VSE system, or is that an optional product?

Regards,
Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Rosinger" <mrosinger@xxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: midrange.midrange-l
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: FTP of file w/packed decimal data from S/390 to iSeries *PF


> List,
>
> We have a VSAM KSDS (indexed) dataset on our VSE platform that we want to 
> move to the iSeries. This file has fixed length records but some of the 
> data in the record is in packed decimal format. I had a brief conversation 
> with someone from iSeries FTP support and they pointed me to a document in 
> the iSeries Information Center that states "Before packed decimal or zoned 
> decimal data can be transferred to or from other system architectures 
> (such as S/390(R) or UNIX(R)), you must convert the data to printable 
> form."
>
> Other than the obvious method of reformatting the data to printable format 
> and FTP the reformatted file, I was wondering if anyone had any other 
> ideas of how this could be accomplished. If that is our only recourse then 
> that is what we will have to do. I just want to make sure I've exhausted 
> all the possibilities before I resign myself to this task. We have several 
> files that will have be handled this way.
>
> TIA for any other ideas you may want to share.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Michael Rosinger
> Systems Programmer / DBA
> Computer Credit, Inc.
> 640 West Fourth Street
> Winston-Salem, NC  27101
> 336-761-1524
> m rosinger at cciws dot com
>
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