Option Transfer Binary

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rickwenger
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Option Transfer Binary

Hi, I'm downloading a file from a mainframe and referencing the Option Transfer Binary because I want the characters to stay in the same format. One of the files that gets downloaded is a control file. We run a SAS program using the control file numbers to insure that the number of records downloaded matches that of the control file. In our SAS program we reference the files downloaded with the recfm, lrecl and the encoding=ebcdic037. I am not a SAS person, more of a sql server dba, so I'm not sure where we are going wrong here with the bite translation.

Thanks in advance!

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Transfer binary in HOST dowload change numbers computational

I'm using binary mode transfer to dowload big files from IBM Host, and the result has numbers in computational-3 format (two digits for byte a last half byte for sign) translated to ascii and so is wrong

What is the reason?

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Re: Transfer binary in HOST dowload change numbers computational

angcamso wrote:

I'm using binary mode transfer to dowload big files from IBM Host, and the result has numbers in computational-3 format (two digits for byte a last half byte for sign) translated to ascii and so is wrong
And what is original format on the server?

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