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

   A couple of another options off the top I thought of:
   .. If you have both machines where they can communicate with each other(
   since your ftping you probably do ),
      and you have SQL access to the source dataset,  you could use SQL from
   the iSeries to select/insert the data.
   .. You could export the data on the VSE to a delimted flat file( i.e.
   CSV-comma separated, TAB-TAB separated, etc. ),
      xfer the flat files over to the iSeries( via ftp, tape, etc. ) and use
   a RPG or other HLL pgm or CPYFRMIPMF command
      to import the data into the tables.

   hth
   Michael Rosinger wrote:

 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.