Depend on what you need to do and there at least two levels to be addressed:
* How variable length records appear on Windows
* How to deal with SDW (spanned long record segments
If you want both BDW and RDW/SDW present on Windows at least two approaches:
* TERSE the file, binary transfer to windows, WWUNTERSE from
Watson & Walker) on windows (-V option removes BDW)
* FTP binary transfer from z/OS to Windows using //DD: and JCL to
force RDCFM=U
Regular FTP binary transfer with "SITE RDW" will give you the file
with just RDW/SDW (BDW is stripped off). Without the "SITE RDW", you
just get the data with no indication of where the record ends).
Then there is the issue of how to re-combine the segments into the
full record length.
Does that help any?
Michael
At 01:54 PM 5/15/2023, Prashant Joshi wrote:
I am trying to read VB & VBS binary file in windows using python. I
tried FTPing file directly, then using Terse and then XMIT but every
time when I read the file in windows, I get random new line (CR/LF)
inserted in record. I am not able to read complete record.
For some files, when I transfer using IND$FILE (option 6) using
Binary and CRLF option checked, I gets record properly. But it does
not work for every file. And due to different file sizes, IND$FILE
may not be option for me.
Need your help to find, what am I missing?
Thanks,
Prashant
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