RE: Extraordinarily Long record length

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Cubitt wrote:

>One of our business partners are 
>sending us data which arrives as 
>one long stream of data.  We 
>need to download this using FTP 
>to our AS/400 and then process it.  
>However, the stream they send is 
>of variable length and often larger 
>than the AS/400's maximum 32766 
>record length.

This sounds like a good candidate for the IFS.  FTP the file into the IFS
and then write an RPG IV program to read the file (search the RPG archives
at http://www.midrange.com) for IFS) or try a CPYFRMSTMF to a fixed length
QSYS-type file.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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