>>should I just translate it to ASCII on z/OS first and then FTP it in binary with RDWs? Would someone be so kind as to share the command to do the translate? >>Years ago I wanted the same and I never found one nor wrote one. FTP's EBCDIC <-> ASCII translation is for the entire logical record. You would need a "field" level translation to get no translation for the length fields and EBCDIC <-> ASCII translation for the text fields.
Charles/Don, DFSORT has the capability of converting from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice-versa TRAN=ETOA converts EBCDIC characters to ASCII characters TRAN=ATOE converts ASCII characters to EBCDIC characters //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=Your.INPUT.VB.FILE //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * OPTION COPY INREC BUILD=(1,4,5,TRAN=ETOA) //* Further if you have any questions please let me know Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on 09/01/2015 08:01:42 AM: > From: Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 09/01/2015 08:03 AM > Subject: FTP - how get RDW and ASCII > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> > > I have a legacy dataset in VB format. I would like to FTP it to a PC (1) > translating the record data to ASCII and (2) preserving the LLBB record > control words. (Don't need the block control words.) I tried the obvious > ASCII and QUOTE SITE RDW but FTP has translated my RDWs to ASCII (rendering > them useless of course). Does anyone have a clever trick to translate the > "data" portion of the records to ASCII but preserve the LLBBs? > > This is a one-time development chore, not a nightly production job. I'm not > fussy about code pages and so forth. The dataset is small: 30 records, 20K > total. > > One of you UNIX experts: should I just translate it to ASCII on z/OS first > and then FTP it in binary with RDWs? Would someone be so kind as to share > the command to do the translate? Again, the existing dataset is legacy MVS, > and I need to preserve LLBBs. > > Thanks, > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
