On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:08:47 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Werner Kuehnel wrote: >> It's not my creation, it was delivered by a bank for a test. Thanks for >> your suggestions, but if there are no standard ftp commands I refuse to >> work with that file. > If the constraint is to use only standard IBM utilities, that may exclude Norbert's TODSN suggestion.
>Yuck! You're definitely looking at using a REXX program for this. I >don't know the bank attitude in Germany. But I've had a number of >large banks basically tell me: "This is what we are going to give you. >No discussion, just deal with it." > Have you ever needed to deal with the possibility that the transformations they performed resulted in data loss or ambiguity? I hate EBCDIC! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
