Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
This is not a SUNOS forum. But from what I know of sftp there is no option to convert to EBCDIC. Now, if you are going to a z/OS system, there is a 3rd party enhancement available from Dovetailed Technologies which does the conversion. Google that name and sftp. I can't cut and paste on my smartphone. -- John McKown Maranatha! Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Jun 14, 2011 6:03 AM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii)I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
Did you use 'ebcdic' or 'ibm' for conversion type on the dd command? Whichever you used, you might want to try and use the other and see if results change. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii)I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
I'm not sure this will make a difference -- I misread the table .. and the LF characters are the same in ebcdic or ibm.. You may need to use 'tr' or some other translate function after the dd. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Did you use 'ebcdic' or 'ibm' for conversion type on the dd command? Whichever you used, you might want to try and use the other and see if results change. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii)I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
I am not sure what you are asking. Linux/390 is an ASCII system, just like Solaris (SunOS). Linux on the mainframe needs no translation when talking to Solaris (on any hardware). Solaris on the mainframe needs no translation when talking to Linux (on any hardware). Linux/390 (and Solaris on z) can run alongside EBCDIC systems such as z/OS, z/VM, VSE, TPF. Those systems all have built-in means to speak ASCII when connecting via TCP/IP. Linux and Solaris are usually better off *not* becoming involved in the translation. z/VM and z/OS (and VSE, maybe TPF) support FTP. It's not the same as SFTP (FTP using SSH). z/VM and z/OS also support FTPS (FTP with SSL). The FTP server on the EBCDIC system should handle translation of text files. Let the EBCDIC side do the translation. I hope this helps. -- R; Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:15, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii) I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
Parthasarathy , I am inferring that you need to FTP to or from a z/OS system. z/VM or VSE are much the same. My experience with FTP to and from z/OS is that EBCDIC to ASCII is automatic. You must set BINARY on to prevent the conversion. That may be a local option, however. I've not used it, but presumably SFTP works the same. The main issue you might have is that ordinary z/OS files have logical record lengths, LRECL, and not line feeds as the record terminators. Linux source records longer than the z/OS destination LRECL will be truncated. Shorter records will be either blank or null filled. I don't know if the line feed character will be translated. You could define a z/OS variable blocked record, but make sure the Linux source records are no longer than the block size, BLKSIZE. Going from z/OS to Linux or Windows is generally not such a problem. Also, watch out for numeric field conversions. Some of the many z/OS numeric formats may not convert the way you wish. It is generally better to create the source files with numbers in display format, without commas, and programmatically convert them. I hope this helps, Michael Stephens -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion I'm not sure this will make a difference -- I misread the table .. and the LF characters are the same in ebcdic or ibm.. You may need to use 'tr' or some other translate function after the dd. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Did you use 'ebcdic' or 'ibm' for conversion type on the dd command? Whichever you used, you might want to try and use the other and see if results change. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii)I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com - - For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 - - For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ***This message has been scanned for all known viruses and objectionable content and is believed to be free of both.*** [ESC-20]http://www.esc20.net [ESC-20 TopWork Place] http://mysanantonio.topworkplaces.com/company_survey/education-service-ce_san_antonio/sanantonio_10 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. This message may be subject to disclosure under the Open Records Act. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
I didn't notice the dd portion of the question. The problem, to IBM at least on z/OS, the end-of-line character is not a LineFeed (EBCDIC 0x25) but a NewLine (EBCDIC 0x15). dd converts 0x0a to 0x25 and not 0x15. On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:45 +0530, Sundaram, Parthasarthy wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i)In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii) I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
If I remember correctly, the way I did this (when I needed to do something like this) I transferred the files using vanilla FTP in binary mode. There is an FTP option you must specify to the FTP server on the z/OS system requesting the inclusion of the record descriptor word (RDW) field. The RDW, among other things, describes the length of the record. You need to use the RDW to insert carriage returns between the records. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I didn't notice the dd portion of the question. The problem, to IBM at least on z/OS, the end-of-line character is not a LineFeed (EBCDIC 0x25) but a NewLine (EBCDIC 0x15). dd converts 0x0a to 0x25 and not 0x15. On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:45 +0530, Sundaram, Parthasarthy wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i)In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii) I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. -Linus Torvalds -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
The IBM OpenSSH server does not support ascii/bin keywords, everything is in binary mode. It was designed around x86 to x86 as I understand it and going binary only you can send text or binary ok but now that mainframe is doing this also and its not just x86 you have issue's. You can use Dovetail to help this or Tectia I believe without those two your options are dd tr iconv sftp also does not support SITE one option you could try, I haven't done this myself thought create a ssh tunnel for ftp then once the tunnel is connected use normal ftp over ssh your still secure but have the same old ftp client to deal with William D Carroll Mainframe Engineering, Build Office: (614) 677-3885 Cell: (614) 266-5402 Email: carrol...@nationwide.com From: Michael Stephens michael.steph...@esc20.net To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 06/14/2011 10:08 AM Subject: Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Parthasarathy , I am inferring that you need to FTP to or from a z/OS system. z/VM or VSE are much the same. My experience with FTP to and from z/OS is that EBCDIC to ASCII is automatic. You must set BINARY on to prevent the conversion. That may be a local option, however. I've not used it, but presumably SFTP works the same. The main issue you might have is that ordinary z/OS files have logical record lengths, LRECL, and not line feeds as the record terminators. Linux source records longer than the z/OS destination LRECL will be truncated. Shorter records will be either blank or null filled. I don't know if the line feed character will be translated. You could define a z/OS variable blocked record, but make sure the Linux source records are no longer than the block size, BLKSIZE. Going from z/OS to Linux or Windows is generally not such a problem. Also, watch out for numeric field conversions. Some of the many z/OS numeric formats may not convert the way you wish. It is generally better to create the source files with numbers in display format, without commas, and programmatically convert them. I hope this helps, Michael Stephens -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion I'm not sure this will make a difference -- I misread the table .. and the LF characters are the same in ebcdic or ibm.. You may need to use 'tr' or some other translate function after the dd. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Did you use 'ebcdic' or 'ibm' for conversion type on the dd command? Whichever you used, you might want to try and use the other and see if results change. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii)I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com - - For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 - - For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ***This message has been scanned for all known viruses and objectionable content and is believed to be free of both.*** [ESC-20]http://www.esc20.net [ESC-20 TopWork Place] http://mysanantonio.topworkplaces.com/company_survey/education-service-ce_san_antonio/sanantonio_10 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this transmission
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
SFTP, in the OP, is distinctly different from FTP[S]. I assume the OP was correct in his usage. SFTP is part of SSH. You're probably thinking of QUOTE SITE RDW, and I totally agree with you about that. On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:29 -0400, adam shea wrote: If I remember correctly, the way I did this (when I needed to do something like this) I transferred the files using vanilla FTP in binary mode. There is an FTP option you must specify to the FTP server on the z/OS system requesting the inclusion of the record descriptor word (RDW) field. The RDW, among other things, describes the length of the record. You need to use the RDW to insert carriage returns between the records. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I didn't notice the dd portion of the question. The problem, to IBM at least on z/OS, the end-of-line character is not a LineFeed (EBCDIC 0x25) but a NewLine (EBCDIC 0x15). dd converts 0x0a to 0x25 and not 0x15. On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:45 +0530, Sundaram, Parthasarthy wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i)In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii) I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. -Linus Torvalds -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Richard Troth wrote: The FTP server on the EBCDIC system should handle translation of text files. Let the EBCDIC side do the translation. heh -- easily said ;) I had a situation where I was receiver and sender as a counterparty on credit card clearance data, in EBCDIC format. The counterparty was so dysfunctional in its internal processes, that it made sense to solve the issues of conversion locally, rather than fight the inertia on the other end -- Russ herrold -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
Better check to ensure there are no packed fields. Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski Solution Architect CSC 3170 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church, VA 22042 845-889-8533|Work|845-392-7889 Cell|rgasi...@csc.com|www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. From: adam shea ajsheam...@gmail.com To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/14/2011 10:35 AM Subject: Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion If I remember correctly, the way I did this (when I needed to do something like this) I transferred the files using vanilla FTP in binary mode. There is an FTP option you must specify to the FTP server on the z/OS system requesting the inclusion of the record descriptor word (RDW) field. The RDW, among other things, describes the length of the record. You need to use the RDW to insert carriage returns between the records. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I didn't notice the dd portion of the question. The problem, to IBM at least on z/OS, the end-of-line character is not a LineFeed (EBCDIC 0x25) but a NewLine (EBCDIC 0x15). dd converts 0x0a to 0x25 and not 0x15. On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:45 +0530, Sundaram, Parthasarthy wrote: Hi Team, Very good morning...Iam parthasarathy working in Mphasis.Kindly requesting you to help me on my below queries. i)In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. ii) Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. iii) I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. It could be highly appreciated if you help me on this. Parthasarathy Sundaram Mphasis an HP company Level 4, 1-B DLF Info City, 1/124 Shivaji Garden , Manapakkam, Chennai-89 Mob: 91 9176663227 parthasarthy.sunda...@hp.com parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. -Linus Torvalds -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
On 6/14/11 1:15 AM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: i) In SunOS how to convert the ASCII mode to EBCDIC mode in SFTP mode. If you are talking to Linux on Z, it's an ASCII system. No conversion necessary. If you are FTPing to z/OS or other IBM system, use text mode. Conversion will happen automatically. See the FTP client/server documentation for the system you are connecting to for more details about specifying code pages (if required). ii)Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. See above. iii) I have a file with 100 records but after converting from ASCII to EBCDIC all the 100 records is aligned in the single line.Please let me know how to resolve this and iam sure that carriage return is missing. Please let me know how to apply the carriage return value during the EBCDIC conversion. See above. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion
On 6/14/2011 at 01:15 AM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Iam able to convert the ASCII file to EBCDIC thru DD command outside SFTP mode.Is this the right command. Does SunOS have iconv? It's what I try to use when I'm doing similar conversions. It's part of glibc, but you might have it on your system. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
