Jim, it looks like you have a Mac user to deal with....aren't they a pain? :-)
Windows record termination: x'0d0a' Unix record termination: x'0a' Mac record termination: x'0d' So simply ban the use of Macs there and your problem is solved..... DJ Original Message: ----------------- From: Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:13:24 -0400 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: PIPELINES and Deblocking(Cross posted in CMSPIPELINES Listserve) A previous file I encountered uses '0A' as the record delimiter. This whackjob file uses '0D' as the record delimiter. I have the '0d0a' and '0a' cases covered. Now I need to programmatically deal with '0d' as the delimiter too. ____________________________ Jim Hughes 603-271-5586 "Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) =>-----Original Message----- =>From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On =>Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:07 AM =>To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU =>Subject: Re: PIPELINES and Deblocking(Cross posted in CMSPIPELINES =>Listserve) => =>Hi, Jim. => =>Looks like you have been bitten by the different ways Windows and Unix =>terminate records in ASCII files.....Windows uses the convention of 'cr- =>lf' =>(x'0d0a') while Unix uses a single 'cr'. => =>You could simply edit the ASCII file on your PC, using and editor that can =>saveASCII files in either Windows or Unix format. On Windows, I use =>notepad++, an open source editor (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net) to =>fix these sorts of things. => =>Godd luck. => =>DJ => =>Original Message: =>----------------- =>From: Hughes, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] =>Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:32:10 -0400 =>To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU =>Subject: PIPELINES and Deblocking(Cross posted in CMSPIPELINES Listserve) => => =>I download files to our Z/VM system in binary. The files on the windows =>ftp server are in ascii. => =>Then I run a PIPE to deblock the file and convert to ebcidic. => =>Here is a snippet: => address command "PIPE ( endchar ? ) " , => "<" !workfile " | " , => " deblock linend 0a | " , => " strip both 0d 1 | " , => " xlate from 819 to 1047 | " , => " change x00 / / | " , => " strip trailing | " , => =>This works fine when the records are delimited by '0d0a' or '0a'. => =>Last night I received a file whose records are delimited by '0d'. Things =>broke because the file wasn't deblocked properly. => =>I am having a hard time visualizing how to cope with records delimited =>by '0d' and not mess up what I already have. => =>Advice?? => =>____________________________ =>Jim Hughes =>603-271-5586 =>"Its kind of fun to do the impossible." (Walt Disney) => => =>-------------------------------------------------------------------- =>mail2web LIVE - Free email based on Microsoft(r) Exchange technology - =>http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange
