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Hi,
My Unix(AIX) app produces a ASCII file that has a Windows delimiters (i.e. CR/LF x'0D'/x'0A'). This has to be transfered to a z/OS USS LPAR, using Sterling Connect Direct, where it is to be consumed by anothe app, which again expects it to have Windows delimiters (CR/LF)

I tried three different options in SYSOPTS:

1. :datatype=binary,xlate=no: This produces an ASCII file but convers the delimiters to Unix (NL x'0C') style instead of Windows stype (CR/LF)
2. :datatype=text,xlate=no: This produces an ASCII file but converts the delimiters to NAK (x'15') !!!
3. datatype=binary,xlate=yes: This produces an EBCDIC file, as expeceted

None of the above formats is accepted by the receiving app in z/OS USS. The closest option is the first one, and with a script using sed might solve th eproblem, but:

Is there any other option I could use in Connect Direct SYSOPTS that could preserve the file in ASCII Windows type and not convert it to ASCII Unix type?

Thank you, GG

Sending application misled us, and now admits that the original file was built as a Unix type file and not DOS one. (I was always puzzled how Connect Direct could change the type of file during transmission, besides the :datatype=binary,xlate=no:)