On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am over my self-imposed daily limit on IBM-MAIN replies and it's not even > 08:00 yet. However, I see no reason to "enhance" ftp. In fact, I think > the capability to convert to/from ASCII is misguided (as it's used by > mistake as often as on purpose - see above). > > Do whatever it takes to create the actual data set you want to transmit, > *then* invoke ftp to transmit it. > As the OP for this thread, I would generally concur with the above. The problem, at present, is that the files of which I am speaking are multi-GiB data sets and finding more DASD space can be problematic. We can't get more DASD basically because we are doing the ftp's to move data off of z/OS in order to "get off the obsolete mainframe and on to current cloud based systems" (managements' words, not mine). We could do BINARY ftps, but that would require more money to write a Windows program to read the data in "mainframe" format and write it out in "Windows" format. We do have Microfocus COBOL. Interestingly(?), it can read the "mainframe encoded" data (EBCDIC, z series integers & packed decimal) just fine. Unfortunately, unless I'm missing something, there is not any option to read in "mainframe encoded" mode but write out in "Windows encoded" mode. Of course, being a despised mainframe sysprog, I'm not allowed access to the PC environment where all this is going on. > > -- > sas > > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
