Coverting ASCII to EBCDIC via FTP on MVS Host

[wossilat]

Hello together,

i have a little problem and hope anyone can help me.
I must receive a ascii file from a unix host to store it on an mvs-host. First problem is that the file is line-sequential und some data in the records looks like an CR/LF, so when i transfer it in TYPE A the file on the mvs-host has more CR and the records are damaged.
So i transfer it in TYPE I an WRAP the records fix after 255 byte.
No i have an ascii fle on the mvs-host and must converted it in ebcdic. An ascii to ebcdic converter works fine on that file but uses a lot of cpu-time.
So i had the idea to translate it via ftp on the same host.

he ftp statements looks like these:

USER
PASSWORT

TYPE A

GET ASCII-FILE 'EBCDIC-FILE-NAME'
quit

But it won't work. The new file is not converted

Does anyone know waht i did wrong ??

Thanks for your help

Regards

Ludger

 

[pansophic]

What I read says that you would do the following:

USER
PASSWORD

TYPE EBCDIC

GET ASCII-FILE

QUIT

According to the help file here:

http://people.linux-gull.ch/rossen/software/migration/migration-7.html

You set the type to the character set you would like the file to end up in, not change it from.

Good luck!


pansophic