Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Comstock
Howard Brazee wrote: I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.Most of this a variable length comment.It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded into a database.They want the extra spaces removed. I doubt if the optimal solution would be to make it variable length, and wonder if I

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread Howard Brazee
On 19 May 2010 09:30:07 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote: >> Trailing blanks disappeared with the FTP!!! > >As is normal unless you are running with LOCSITE TRAILINGBLANKS set. I thought >I mentioned that? >I've been distracted lately. You said the following. I inferre

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:24 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file > > Trailing bla

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread Howard Brazee
On 19 May 2010 07:47:39 -0700, peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com (Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4) wrote: >>It didn't read right. I'll just clean up the file on the Unix side. > >So then the program did not write variable length records. The record >format (RECFM) is usually declared within the program,

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread Howard Brazee
Trailing blanks disappeared with the FTP!!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archiv

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
>>>Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting >>>any filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments >>>favor a more complicated process? >> >>I'll try it. > >It didn't read right. I'll just clean up the file on the Unix side. So then the program did not write var

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread Howard Brazee
On Tue, 18 May 2010 13:20:49 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: >>Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting any >>filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments favor a >>more complicated process? > >I'll try it. It didn't read right. I'll just clean up the file on the

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-19 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
>Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting >any filtering downstream seems optimum to me. >What arguments favor a more complicated process? The fact that the program may not support writing variable length records? -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-18 Thread Howard Brazee
On 18 May 2010 11:59:54 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: >Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting any >filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments favor a >more complicated process? I'll try it. -

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-18 Thread Howard Brazee
On 18 May 2010 11:48:00 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote: >Trailing blanks or embedded blanks? > >quote site notrailingblanks > >on the ftp to remove trailing blanks, for a UNIX client (ftp initiated by >UNIX). > >locsite notrailingblanks > >for a z/OS client (ftp initiat

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:39:36 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: >I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.Most of this a >variable length comment.It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded >into a database.They want the extra spaces removed. > >I doubt if the optimal solution would be to

Re: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-18 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:40 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file > > I have a job that cre

Creating a variable length FTP to ASCII file

2010-05-18 Thread Howard Brazee
I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.Most of this a variable length comment.It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded into a database.They want the extra spaces removed. I doubt if the optimal solution would be to make it variable length, and wonder if I should create a delimi