UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Thank you shell life,
we will learn a lot from this.

When I do understand your piece of scripting right, then it does the while-loop 500 times for each record. We come from the mainframe and we have files of more than 1 milion records, so I don't think this is an option for us.

Thanks.

Sandra

We know now! An old colleague helped us.
Ftp from unix to a mainframe does not work properly. It cuts of at 256 digits.

We need a fixed recordlenght.
We will have to use
quote site fixrecfm 500
site command would put it to recordlenght 500 locally. And quote site does this on the remote site, to where it is ftp-ed.

Have a good day and a good weekend!!

Sandra

Selecting record format and record length for CMS.
By default, all files transferred using FTP will have variable record format. If you are transferring a file to CMS which must/ought to be in a fixed record format or which should have a specific record length, use the site command of FTP on CMS.
Before GETing files to CMS using FTP on CMS, enter:
site fixrecfm nnnn
Before PUTing files to CMS using FTP on a PC or another local host, enter:
quote site fixrecfm nnnn
in both cases, nnnn is the record length you want the transferred file to have. The quote command sends the specified command to the remote FTP for execution. The command site varrecfm restores the default variable record format. (Include quote if necessary.)

From: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/network/ftp/vftp.html

Sandra

Sandra,
The while-loop 500 times is just to assign 500 pipes '|' into one variable.
It is performed only once.
The second while-loop is the one that reads the entire file and tries to attach
the 500 characters variable at the end of each record.
The result length of each record is 500, which is written to the output.

Oh yes, I see.
Thanks.
I've learned a lot today.
Thanks.

Sandra