Re: Data transfer

["Scott Klement" <infosys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ITF still exists.  (the command is STRITF)

Theres a few problems with this strategy:

1) Packed numbers would probably be screwed up by the transfer,
    (unless, of course, you wrote software to convert everything
    BEFORE sending it...   Like converting it all to CSV formatted
    records in a physical file with "one big field" for each line.

    In fact, I'm not even sure that the ITF will transfer anything
    other than a source physical file.  Though, you could get around
    this problem pretty easily :)

2) You'd have to worry about the data being corrupted, since ITF
    doesn't support a file transfer protocol like Xmodem or Zmodem
    that could check the data for errors as it sends. (Tho, with
    modern error correction modems, this wouldnt be a big issue)

3) This would be slow, limited to modem speeds... perfectly acceptable
    if there isnt too much data to send, but if you've got a lot,
    it'd take a really long time :)

But, if this is the only method available to you, it sure beats
retyping]

Scott Klement
Information Systems Manager
Klement's Sausage Co, Inc.


Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com> wrote:
> Wasn't there an old product called ITF, for Interactive Terminal
>  Facility, on
> the S/36?  Isn't there something like this on the 400?  Couldn't she
>  use this,
> in combination with a BBS package, (like Procomm) on a PC to get her
>  data
> downloaded?  Providing she has a comm line on her 400 and can scrape
>  up an
> async modem.
>
>
>
>
>
> infosys@klements.com on 05/19/99 11:20:44 AM
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>
> Sherry...
>
>      Perhaps I don't fully undetstand the situation, but, is there
> any reason why you couldn't just download these files using somethin
> like PC support or perhaps IDEAcomm's midrange client?
>
> (I know you can't use client access on a system that old)
>
> I know that with the IDEAcomm software, you can do S/36 files, becau
> you can define a "view" of the file, telling the system which fields
> are in which places...
>
> You can then download them into a CSV formatted file (it might be
> called something else, like "variable length records" or something,
> depending on the software) which could be imported directly into
> Excel.
>
> I can't think of any way to do this using the tape drive.  I guess
> if you've got compatible drives on both the PC and the AS/400 you
> COULD transfer it that way, but it'd almost DEFINITELY mean writing
> custom software on the PC to interpret the files.  Using File Transf
> would be a *LOT* easier.
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> Scott Klement
> Information Systems Manager
> Klement's Sausage Co, Inc.
>
>
> "Sherry McMahon" <smcm@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> > I am involved with a school that has been using an AS/400 (2.0.1)
> >  been
> > very poorly maintained.  They are going to a software package for
> >  keeping
> > and maintaining their student records.  Half of the records on the
> >  AS/400
> > are in S/36 and the rest in 400.  They have a 1/4 inch Tape Unit 6
> > 00-4110454       4.   They just what to save the data and get it
> >  converted
> > to a text format to put into an Access database.  Because of the a
> >  of the
> > AS/400 and the size of the tape drive we hear more laugher when
> >  looking for
> > help than any useful suggestions.  The school is in Minnesota.  Do
> >  anyone
> > know of a company that does this sort of thing?  I've exhausted my
> >  little
> > circle connections and this is the last place I can think to ask.
> > apologize for this question not being strictly RPG related.
> >
> > Sherry McMahon
> >
> >
> >
> >
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