Date:         Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:41:09 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@YAHOO.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@YAHOO.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Convert ASCII file on mainframe to FB
Comments: To: John Mattson <John_Mattson@EA.EPSON.COM>

Hi John,

Maybe the (DOS/Windows) program DATAFIX is what you need. If restructures
records by changing end-of-line characters (0D0A) in an ascii (text) file.
http://home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld/software/data/datfx231.zip
http://home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld/software/data/Datafix.txt

Regards - Jim.
--
Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
Statistician, SAS consultant
home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:02:45 -0700, John Mattson
<John_Mattson@EA.EPSON.COM> wrote:

>        When you FTP an ASCII file using Binary format to MVS mainframe
>you get a VB file with the multiple ASCII records on the MVS record with
>the last record continued on the next record.   (Assuming the ASCII record
>length is less than 32K, the MVS limit.).   Does anyone have a routine to
>read these ASCII files which has records delimited by x'0D0A' and write
>out MVS sequential files with one ascii record per MVS record?   No
>ascii/ebcdic translation needed here.   No 32K record limitation in this
>case.