Re: Extra record on iSeries to PC FTP

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Oh, I just thought of another way. Don't use CRLF as the record
separator. You could specify another character, and then it's up to the
receiving process to parse it. Perhaps "~". You could also use *EOR,
which, according to to the documentation is x'00.

Pete Hall
pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://pbhall.us


Pete Hall wrote:

If you look at a text file with CRLF termination, you'll always see an
extra line, because the end of line is CRLF. That last line will have a
length of 0. The only way(s) I can think of to get around that would be
to output the CRLF at the start of all records other than the first, or
to remove the last 2 bytes from the output datastream.

Pete Hall
pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://pbhall.us


Fleming, Greg (ED) wrote:

When I FTP a file from our iSeries to the PC, it always seems to have
one blank record at the end. Also seems to happen when I use CPYTOIMPF
to the IFS.

I reckon the CRLF on the last record is causing an extra record to be
created.

This seems to be causing our DB service provider some consternation, as
the actual record count they see is one more than the count I send them
in the control file.

I could just increase the control file count by one every time, but that
seems like cheating.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent this extra record from appearing on
the PC side ?

Thanks

Greg Fleming

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Everglades Direct, Inc.

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