Re: FTP and Unicode files

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve

I'm inclined to suggest 2 options

1. Don't make your PF 1208 - instead, use a parameter on CPYTOIMPF or 
CPYTOSTMF to set the CCSID of the IFS file.

2. Write directly to the IFS file - you can roll your own using IFS APIs 
or use Scott Klement's IFS service program.

HTH
Vern

On 11/17/2015 7:09 PM, Steve Landess wrote:
> IBM I 7.1
> ------------
>
> Customer wants a UTF-8 text file, so we created a PF with data encoded 
> as CCSID(1208) and used FTP to do a PUT (Using BINARY mode) onto their 
> FTP server (NOT IBM I, probably Windows, not sure).
>
> The customer came back and indicated that what they /really/ needed is 
> UTF-8 with <CR><LF> delimiters on each record.
>
> When using IBM i to PUT an EBCDIC-encoded [ for example, CCSID(37) ] 
> to another system, if BINARY is not specified on the PUT then FTP will 
> translate the EBCDIC to ASCII and put <CR><LF> on each record on the 
> target file.  We tried using FTP with the CCSID(1208) file, and it 
> seems that IBM i FTP also translates CCSID(1208) to ASCII during the PUT.
>
> NOT good.
>
> After much experimentation and frustration, the solution which I 
> devised was to use CPYTOIMPF to copy the UTF-8 PF to an IFS file:
>
> CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(UTF8FILE) TOSTMF('/home/steve/test.txt') 
> MBROPT(*REPLACE) RCDDLM(*CRLF) STRDLM(*NONE) RMVBLANK(*TRAILING)
>
> Then used FTP to PUT the IFS file (using BINARY mode) to the target 
> system.
>
> This gave them what they wanted - Is there a better way?
>
> -sjl