I had not read your specification with enough care; my ftp example preserves the full binary VB record structure. So, then, after the ftp download, your (SAS?) program on ASCII can INPUT just the data portion of each record as ASCII text:
FILENAME ONASCII 'C:\yourdata\downloaded.vb' recfm=s370vbs lrecl=32760; DATA ASCIIDATA (KEEP=DATAPART LENGTH); INFILE ONASCII LENGTH=LEN; LENGTH=LEN; INPUT @; INPUT DATAPART $VARYING32760. LENGTH @; Barry Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD President-Programmer MXG Software Merrill Consultants 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229-5112 ba...@mxg.com Fax: 214 350 3694 - Still works, received as email Tel: 214 351 1966 - Unreliable, please use email www.mxg.com HomePage: FAQ answers most questions ad...@mxg.com License Forms, Invoice, Payment, ftp information supp...@mxg.com Technical Issues MXG-L FREE ListServer http://www.mxg.com/mxg-l_listserver/ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 10:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP - how get RDW and ASCII Thanks Barry. I don't see any ASCII translation in there. Am I missing something? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 8:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP - how get RDW and ASCII i. ftp instructions for sending data to the MXG ftp site Using the IBM ftp program, you can ftp any MVS data file to the MXG ftp site with this syntax; do NOT change the DCB attributes of the //SMFFILE DD: even though it points to a VBS DSNAME, the RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760 must be used to include BDW and RDWs. //FTP EXEC PGM=FTP,PARM='(EXIT=4' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SMFFILE DD DSN=YOUR.SMF.DATA,DCB=RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760,DISP=SHR //INPUT DD * ftp.mxg.com mxgtech mxgtech quote PASV bin put //DD:SMFFILE yourname.smf close quit /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
