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Shankarganesh_gopal · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:26 am Post subject: problem in formating

I have an input file. It contains character '['. When I do FTP the file, it is converted into some other character. Actually, the other party should receive the file with character '['. I tried giving '$' hex '5B' which is equal to '[' ASCII value. That also failed.

Can any one tell, how should I format the data, so that the receiver should see '['.

Thanks,
Shankar.

bauer · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:53 am Post subject:

Shankarganesh_gopal,

it looks like the ascii / ebcdic translation table for your FTP doesn't match for the digit you mentioned ?!

Shankarganesh_gopal · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:57 am Post subject:

I checked ASCII and ebcdic tables. Document says $ is the equal ebcdic value for ASCII '['. But it didn't worked.

superk · Advanced Joined: 19 Dec 2002 Posts: 684 Topics: 5

EBCDIC X'AD' translates to an ASCII X'5B'.

In the future, if you insist on using non-standard, non-displayable (read transparent) delimiters/characters in a file that needs to be transferred between different systems, you will continue to run into these types of issues. If doing such a process is absolutely necessary, then it's in your best interest to translate the data into the proper format (i.e. EBCDIC-to-ASCII on the mainframe, or ASCII-to-EBCDIC on a server) before any transfer is attempted. This is the only way to assure the integrity of the data.