Comments on: Receiving a Binary file http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-a-binary-file/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-a-binary-file/#comment-91214 tomliotta Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:55:20 +0000 #comment-91214 If the file was FTPed to the Unix box in BINARY mode, and if the file format matches a file format on your system, you should be able to GET the file in BINARY mode into the matching file on your system.

If CCSIDs also match between your system and original system, there should be no problems.

Tom

]]> By: as400pcfiletransfer16 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-a-binary-file/#comment-91207 as400pcfiletransfer16 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:47:00 +0000 #comment-91207 The files are coming from a iSeries but they are being place on a unix system.

]]> By: bigkat http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/receiving-a-binary-file/#comment-91205 bigkat Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:27:30 +0000 #comment-91205 FTP’ing a file in binary just means it was unconverted from whatever character set (ASCII, EBCDIC, …) it was stored in. If it was from another EBCDIC system and laid out to match your file, you can simply issue a binary command before your get.

That is PROBABLY NOT the case.

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