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On 29/04/2010, at 3:11 PM, Panayiotis Petrou wrote:

Has anyone transferred data containing packed fields and how did you get
around issues like the new line character x'15'

Transferring in Binary mode should resolve that. Although given that both systems are EBCDIC then I'd expect EBCDIC mode to work too.

What sort of file are your transmitting? Given that it contains packed- numeric fields it is likely a database file and therefore has a fixed length. Isn't there a way to tell the VSE system to expect fixed- length records? There must be VSE-specific commands exposed through the VSE FTP server that allow you to define characteristics of the transfer much as OS/400 FTP supports TRIM, LISTFMT, NULLFLDS, and CRTCCSID. Run HELP SERVER from within the OS/400 FTP client for more information.

A quick Google search suggest that something like the VSE command
DEFINE FILE ... RECFM=F LRECL=record-size
might do it.

I did that Google search about half an hour after the original message arrived here and IT WAS ALREADY IN GOOGLE!!! How good is that? Midrange-L must be a high-traffic watched site.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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