Files created by an AS400

[Richard Kreiss]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Nancy Palmquist
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:32 PM
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> Subject: Files created by an AS400
> 
> Fellow filePro programmers,
> 
> I am trying to troubleshoot a problem where a file is  created by an
> AS400 computer (I have no idea about OS or anything.) as a print image.
> Then it is supposed be moved to a Windows machine and read by filePro as
> ASCII.  I have  a program that may do some translation first before it is
full
> ASCII, but that program is waiting for an upgrade to 64 bit.  It does run
in XP
> Mode, however so that is where we are testing.
> 
> Windows side computer went bad and it was replaced with Win7 64 bit.
> AS400 computer was upgraded to 64 bit (got no idea what that might have
> changed.) The software on the AS400 generates a print image file that is
then
> moved somehow to the Windows computer.
> 
> But I can not longer read the file.  It looks like garbage when it gets to
me.
> 
> Does anyone have some experience with an AS400 and could they give me a
> bit of coaching as to what I might need to ask about to see where the
issue
> might be?
> 
> I am thinking: 1) file they are now creating is wrong, 2) transport
mechanism
> to Windows is changing the file somehow.
> 
> I do not know the transport mechanism - if that could be it.
> 
> They email the file to me to test, so that could be doing the damage but I
> think it is wrong before that.
> 
> I appreciate any suggestions.
> 
> Nancy


It has been many years since I was involved with the AS400, this was when it
was first released.  IBM had a PC software that moved report files from the
AS400 to the PC.  One of my clients then used Monarch to convert the file
into a spreadsheet.

Now this was the AS400 running OS400 and not AIX or now Linux.  

As was previously mentioned, you need to know more about the upgrade.  I
found that IBM was often slow upgrading some of the support programs to work
with the new OS release.

Richard