FTP Problem

http://www.as400network.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=9480

Q. When I FTP a database file from one AS/400 to another, records 
and some data are often missing. Is there a bug in FTP?



A. There's no support in FTP for special numeric formats such as 
packed decimal and zoned decimal. To send a file that contains these 
formats, you must use either a transfer type of TYPE I (BINARY) or 
TYPE E (EBCDIC) with a transmission mode of BLOCK; these transfer 
types send the data "as is" without requiring conversion. Other 
transfer type results are unpredictable. In addition, you must 
create the file on the target AS/400 (using DDS source) before 
transferring the data.



You can also save the file in a save file, FTP (in binary mode) the 
save file to a save file on the target AS/400, and then restore the 
file on the target system.



To transfer an AS/400 externally described file with special numeric 
formats to a non-AS/400 system, you must first copy the file to a 
file without these formats (printable form) and then FTP this 
temporary file to the non-AS/400 system.

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