Uploading Recfm=VB to Mainframe

poobalen · New User Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 18 Location: malaysia

I'm sending a file which is in RECFM=VB and LRECL=967 from an ASCII system to the HOST. But The uploaded file is not in sequence.

I created the file first with RECFM=VB and LRECL=967, after this I performed the transfer.

Thanks.

expat · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

Usually use the BLOCK method for VB files, of do a VB >>> FB conversion

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject:

Hello,

enrico-sorichetti

just a hint...
if on the pc the file is ascii text, when converting to ebcdic text ...
the collating sequence will be different

superk

I too am confused.

The ASCII file will contains end-of-line (EOL) characters in the form of a Carriage-Return/Line-Feed (CR/LF) pair. An upload using ASCII will convert the EOL to an EBCDIC Inter-Record-Seperator (IRS) value of 1E. This process will be done record-by-record, so the chances of losing a record or of them being stored out-of-sequence is virtually nil.

poobalen · New User Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 18 Location: malaysia

Hi ,

The Vb file was uploaded to the pc from mainframe, And then later we send back the file from pc to Mainframe.

i managed to upload the file ,but i have change format to fb before uploading the file to pc and mainframe. In mainframe then i convert in back to Vb format.

enrico-sorichetti

again ...
in ASCII ( pc ) numbers come before the letters
in EBCDIC ( mainframe) the numbers come after the letters ...

in ASCII numbers and letters are a contiguos set

in EBCDIC they are not ( thanks to Hollerith )

provide the proper sorting before processing the data

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject:

Hello,

enrico-sorichetti

depends the meaning of pre-date

not certainly in the predator sense

ascii origin is an offspring of punched tape architecture

EBCDIC is an offspring of punched card conventions ( Hollerith, BCD and so on )