See if you are licensed to use SAS/CONNECT. We have been using it for about a year now, to download about 4 GB/day from MVS to a LAN. It is great. It is simple. It is one step (PROC DOWNLOAD) vs. the many steps needed the old fashioned way. ie. 1) Create binary transport file 2) FTP 3) Convertion back to SAS.

Rick Norman normarc@ionet.net ----------------------------- pluther@osa.state.nj.us wrote in message <6i2qr5$rep$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >In-house user is reporting a problem with SAS data sets downloaded to her PC. > SAS data set is created on mainframe, converted to create transport file, >then downloaded using file transfer tool in Attachmate Extra!V6.3, binary >format. File is converted on PC before use in program. We're running SAS >mainframe V6.09, PC 6.12 under Win95 on a Gateway 200MgH. User is reporting >occassional missing observations and/or missing variables. Has anyone else >come across this problem? Thanks, Paula > >-----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading