Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject: reading ASCII on server, writing to M/F
Apologies in advance if this topic is covered elsewhere. I searched for refrences to this issue but could not find any.
My issue is this. I'm trying to read an ASCII file with CR/LF at the end of each record in order to write that file to a fixed blocked file on the mainframe.
The CR/LF is ignored at the end of the ASCII records so they are being picked up as one large record. I've yet to find a way of forcing the CR/LF to be recognized as end-of-record. Record volumes vary greatly on these files so parsing on the M/F side is not a solution.
My JCL is as follows. Any suggestions or references to other topics that I have missed in my searches would be greatly appreciated.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject:
jrever,
what format are you using to FTP ? The FTP protocol for ASCII stream transfer requires two byte (carriage return, line feed) (x'0D0A') which the receiving end (z/OS) treats as line/record break. Unix has only LF (line feed) char (x'0A') which Unix expects as a record/line delimiter in text (character) files. Make sure the file has x'0D0A' at the end of every record
The ASCII file does indeed have the CR/LF characters hex'0D0A' terminating each line. When the records come across as one big stream the CR/LF are not included.
So something is stripping them off. _________________ jrever
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