Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Imler, Steven J
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 08:26 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: CA's CDTAPE format Can someone tell me what CA means by upload the UPLOAD.EXEC file to your z/VM userid specifying text translation.? It doesn't appear they mean ASCII (by way of FTP), because that doesn't work

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Edward M Martin
J Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:52 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CA's CDTAPE format Dave, I didn't write those instructions, but yes, it means to FTP or UPLOAD with the ASCII option in effect for the transfer. You didn't specify what error you received when you

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Keeton
, 2008 6:52 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CA's CDTAPE format Dave, I didn’t write those instructions, but yes, it means to FTP or UPLOAD with the ASCII option in effect for the transfer. You didn’t specify what error you received when you attempted to run

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Keeton
, December 03, 2008 6:52 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CA's CDTAPE format Dave, I didn’t write those instructions, but yes, it means to FTP or UPLOAD with the ASCII option in effect for the transfer. You didn’t specify what error you received when

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Dave. What's the invalid character in line 2653? You can edit the UPLOAD exec file in Xedit, make the last line in the file the current line, and then issue the Xedit command hextype. That will show you the line in both hex and character modes. Dave Keeton wrote: Okay. I tried using a

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Dave Keeton wrote: Okay. I tried using a Windows Pee Cee for this (normally I use my linux workstation). I removed the first line of the exec which contained snip here. This gives me a file with 2563 records like what Ed had. It was opened with NotePad ++ and verified that

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Keeton
Dave, That did it! I checked the end of the file and found an invalid character. I just removed the line and re-ran the extract command. The files extracted as they should. Thanks for your help!! Regards, Dave On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 11:37 -0600, Dave Jones wrote: Hi, Dave. What's the

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Imler, Steven J
Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Keeton Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:32 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CA's CDTAPE format Okay. I tried using a Windows Pee Cee for this (normally I use my linux workstation). I removed the first line of the exec which

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Keeton
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CA's CDTAPE format Okay. I tried using a Windows Pee Cee for this (normally I use my linux workstation). I removed the first line of the exec which contained snip here. This gives me a file with 2563 records like what Ed had. It was opened

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Jones
I'm glad to hear that, Dave Because I have had problems like the one Dave had with using FTP to upload files to VM, I now use, if it's possible, the IND$FILE file transfer built into many of the major TN3270 emulators, including the text-based c3270 one for Linux. The VM IND$FILE module

Re: CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Keeton
All this time I've been using FTP when I could have been using X3270 to do my file transfers You're a life-saver (or at least a time-saver), Dave!! Thanks! On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:41 -0600, Dave Jones wrote: I'm glad to hear that, Dave Because I have had problems like the one Dave

CA's CDTAPE format

2008-12-02 Thread KEETON Dave * OR SDC
Can someone tell me what CA means by upload the UPLOAD.EXEC file to your z/VM userid specifying text translation.? It doesn't appear they mean ASCII (by way of FTP), because that doesn't work with the next step of: EXEC UPLOAD EXTRACT A Which generates an error. Is there a command to specify