Thank you for your response, Michael, 1. FTP -> what options did you use? -- I use Binary and QUOTE SITE RDW
2. Terse & XMIT and then ? how did it get to windows? -- I used WWUNTERSE (>From Watson & Walker) for TERSE and XMIT manager (from CBT tape) for XMIT 3. IND$FILE which you decided isn't really a candidate due to file sizes. -- That's correct Which python: python 2 or python 3? -- Python 3 Did you specify binary mode on the python open call? -- Yes. And I can read the data. Its just that I don't get proper end of record. Hence every time I read record, I get random record length (multiple records/half records combined) Thanks, Prashant -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Michael Stein Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 1:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: VBS file read in windows - end of record issue On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:54:40PM +0000, Prashant Joshi wrote: > I am trying to read VB & VBS binary file in windows using python. I > tried FTPing file directly, then using Terse and then XMIT but every > time when I read the file in windows, I get random new line (CR/LF) > inserted in record. I am not able to read complete record. Let's see if I understand the problem, here's a summary I see: You tried 3 transfer mechanisms for the z/OS to your windows machine (I'm assuming it's from z/OS since this is the mainframe list). 1. FTP -> what options did you use? 2. Terse & XMIT and then ? how did it get to windows? What do you have on windows which can process this combination of format? 3. IND$FILE which you decided isn't really a candidate due to file sizes. On the windows machine you are trying to read the resulting file with python. Which python: python 2 or python 3? Did you specify binary mode on the python open call? The raw VB & VBS files sound relatively easy to read with python by reading in binary mode and using the BDW/RDW information to separate the records. I'm not sure how you would deal with undoing the XMIT and Terse on windows once you got an intact file there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
