Date:         Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:22:24 +0100
Reply-To:     peter.crawford@DB.COM
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From:         Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM>
Subject:      Re: os/390(mvs) reading a file after binary FTP from os/2
Comments: To: mshines@purdue.edu
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The '0a'x only occur as line-end characters - never as data
I hesitate to use the SAS filename ftp engine while it is still described as
"experimental" see
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote/ts556.htm

A work around in the re-blocking approach delivered what we needed - and it
worked quite quickly.
It just took hours to find!
Had a bit of trouble processing in the 200byte lrecl when two '0a'x occurred in
one 200byte line.
SAS produced an error message
          NOTE: DATA STEP stopped due to looping
(it isn't host dependant, because the program and data generate the same message
in SAS on WinNT)

All that went away by overriding the lrecl to 25 ( valid because it is an eighth
of the stored lrecl)
then that combination of more than one delimiter on one line won't arise


Datum:         20.07.99 21:41
An:            Peter Crawford/Zentrale/DeuBaExt



Betreff:       Re: Antwort: Re: os/390(mvs) reading a file after binary FTP from
               os/2
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No - I didn't see your later spec that SAS wasn't available at the source
until later.    see later missle about using FTP as part of file access
method...     let mainframe read remote file directly without moving it
with FTP.    I think that will work.

If not - there are other methods... such as using Samba to share files
across NT/UNIX machines...   OS/390 has a UNIX flavor to it... if your at
that level.

At 09:27 PM 7/20/99 +0100, you wrote:
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>Can cport handle external files ?
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