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  • July 9, 2018 at 4:56 pm #55744
    Jerry Tilsley
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      All,

      Is it possible with the protocol driver control to set something like the FILESET to change which encoding is used for the connection to send?  I have a connection that needs both ASCII and binary and was hoping maybe I could toggle between?  Any advise on this?

      Jerry

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      • July 9, 2018 at 5:07 pm #86371
        Jim Kosloskey
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          Jerry,

          Do you mean different for the same file or that different files to the same connection will have different needs?

          email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

        • July 9, 2018 at 5:09 pm #86372
          Jerry Tilsley
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            Different encoding for different files on the same connection.  One file is a flat ASCII file, the other is an encrypted file that needs to be sent as BINARY.

            Jerry

          • July 9, 2018 at 5:37 pm #86373
            Jim Kosloskey
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              Is there a reason why you don’t just set up 2 destination threads one with ASCII specified and one with Binary specified?

              Then route the appropriate files to the appropriate destinations.

              email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

            • July 9, 2018 at 5:45 pm #86374
              Jerry Tilsley
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                For a connection that only sends two files a day, I’d rather not have another connection that just clutters if I can just do some code to keep it clean.  I may have to go the second connection route, just trying not to.

                Jerry

              • July 9, 2018 at 5:59 pm #86375
                Jim Kosloskey
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                  Well I don’t have a system to check but have you checked to see if the setting is in the metadata?

                  If it is, then perhaps you can change the setting with each message based on file name in the Outbound Tps.

                  Just supposing here.

                  Personally I find something hidden like ths code in the Outbound Tps to more troublesome from a maintenance and troubleshooting aspect than having 2 destination threads which to me make things seem more obvious. But that is just me.

                  email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

                • July 9, 2018 at 6:01 pm #86376
                  Jerry Tilsley
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                    I understand your concern with the outbound TPS and such, but i’m the only one here so that narrows the trouble down to just me.  I’m not sure if anything exists in the metadata or not, that is what I was hoping to find out here.

                    Jerry

                  • July 9, 2018 at 6:03 pm #86377
                    Jim Kosloskey
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                      Look in the documentation. All of the usable FTP metadata fields are listed there I think.

                      email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

                    • July 11, 2018 at 4:06 pm #86378
                      Michael Hertel
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                        Looks like FTPTYPE can be set to i or a

                        I haven’t done this but it’s in the help doc.

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