UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Iam new to unix.I have 3 files to be FTPied to Mainframe from Unix(Sun Solaries Unix). Sample record in one file is as shown below.

123ßRajß123-456ßjackßß
124ßRajeshß123-457ßjacmßß

In the above file the records are seperated by delimitter "ß". When I used the below script to FTP from Unix to mainframe.

cd $DIRECTORY1
echo "open xxxx.xxxx.com \n" > $DIRECTORY2/file1
echo "user user1 password \n" >> $DIRECTORY2/file1
echo "cd /xxx/xxx/ \n" >> $DIRECTORY2/file1
echo "mput * \n" >> $DIRECTORY2/file1
echo "bye " >> $DIRECTORY2/file1
ftp -ivn < $DIRECTORY2/file1>> $file2
rm $DIRECTORY2/file1
ret_code=$?
if [ $ret_code == $vSuccess ]
then
echo "[$prog_name] Successfully removed the file for FTP \n" >> $file2
else
echo "[$prog_name] Failed to remove the script file for FTP \n" >> $file2
fi

It is saying that the hostname, login ID and password and that directory in that host exists but It is saying that FTP operation is failed.

Then I came to know that the destination team recieved files but the file is in the below manner.

123aj23-456ack
124ajesh23-45jacm

The problem is after FTPing delimiter is not visible at their side and one character is missing after delimiter and they r not recieving records in line by line they are getting all records sequentially.

Please let me know how to solve it.

You havent said what mainframe? (mvs, vms, os3, gcos...)?
It could also be a question of block size....
Im not at work now and its a long time since I used to do exchanges with mainframes...
but I remember it can not be obvious ( ebcdic? ...file format...)
for instance I remember having to pass files from GCOS or to using dd.. to generate a file to transfer e.g. using conv=unblock ...

Thanks for the reply....... Iam FTPing it to mvs Mainframe. Please let me know How to come to out of this problem.

vbe is right. You may have to dd to pack the file into a format that mvs can translate.
The problem is definitely on the mainframe side - dealing with 'weird' unix files. Since it is probably easier to reformat on the unix side, make the file match the definition of the record structure in the recordset first, then FTP the improved file over....

ftp will translate carriage control information to channel control on the MVS side if the incoming file matches what the recordset expects.

I've been away from mvs/tso longer than you can imagine... so take that into consideration.