file transfer

coolmaninit · 06-11-2018, 06:57 AM

When using FTP to transfer a file from IBM iSeries family of servers client to a non IBM Iseries family server, files might have characters appear in the wrong format

Eg "|" in Iseries and while transferring fro Iseries system to Linux , but instead of "|" it is showing as "?".

Please advise

wpeckham · 06-11-2018, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by coolmaninit

When using FTP to transfer a file from IBM iSeries family of servers client to a non IBM Iseries family server, files might have characters appear in the wrong format

Eg "|" in Iseries and while transferring fro Iseries system to Linux , but instead of "|" it is showing as "?".

Please advise

That does not sound like a "format" problem, more like a translation problem. You are probably doing an imperfect EBCDIC to ASCII translation during the transfer.

NevemTeve · 06-11-2018, 09:41 AM

You might try to transfer in binary mode, then convert on Linux-side with glibc!iconv. It does support some EBCDIC variants like IBM-037 and IBM-1047

jpollard · 06-11-2018, 10:52 AM

could try "dd" command which has two EBCDIC variations.

coolmaninit · 06-11-2018, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NevemTeve

You might try to transfer in binary mode, then convert on Linux-side with glibc!iconv. It does support some EBCDIC variants like IBM-037 and IBM-1047

Thanks for your reply!!

If I send the Broken pipe symbol , in Linux system also appearing Broken pipe sysmbol.

If I send the "|" symbol from AS400 ( IBM Iseries) then In Linux it is appearing "?"

Do I ned to put any CCSID and If yes, then what CCSID I need to use?

NevemTeve · 06-11-2018, 11:34 PM

Someone (this means you) should examine the actual codes in the file, to identify the used EBCDIC variant.
Note: Incidentally, I have two examples (037 and 1047) you might want to check/compare:
http://web.axelero.hu/lzsiga/IBM-037.TXT
http://web.axelero.hu/lzsiga/IBM-1047.TXT