On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system >which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at >some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an >EBCDIC to ASCII to EBCDIC tranlation which include "non printable" character, >you don't get back the original file. The reason is because multiple EBCDIC >characters translate to the same ASCII character. So there is NO way to know >what the original character is. > The OP sent me, privately, a sample of his data. Excerpts from my analysis/reply to him:
It was apparently a PDS containing several (perhaps 5) Rexx EXECs. ... Apparently a TRANSMIT OUTDATASET() was performed. That output data set, about 100kB, was FTPed to the PC in ASCII mode. Is the EBCDIC instance lost from z/OS? ... Recovery is tedious. I haven't the resources to help you further. Some of the members (a little more than half the content) had sequence numbered lines; those numbers could be useful markers in reconstructing the data. [Abby Sciuto or Penelope Garcia would do it in seconds.] You might take this back to IBM-MAIN. ... But, please, answer completely any questions people ask you; don't expect others to do all the detective work. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
