Github user fszabo2 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/sqoop/pull/44#discussion_r175478607 --- Diff: src/java/org/apache/sqoop/mapreduce/mainframe/MainframeConfiguration.java --- @@ -33,4 +33,13 @@ public static final String MAINFRAME_INPUT_DATASET_TAPE = "mainframe.input.dataset.tape"; public static final String MAINFRAME_FTP_FILE_ENTRY_PARSER_CLASSNAME = "org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.mainframe.MainframeFTPFileEntryParser"; + + public static final String MAINFRAME_FTP_TRANSFER_MODE = "mainframe.ftp.transfermode"; + + public static final String MAINFRAME_FTP_TRANSFER_MODE_ASCII = "ascii"; + + public static final String MAINFRAME_FTP_TRANSFER_MODE_BINARY = "binary"; + + // this is the buffer size used when doing binary ftp transfers from mainframe + public static final Integer MAINFRAME_FTP_TRANSFER_BINARY_BUFFER = 32760; --- End diff -- Is this value always a good choice? I would make it configurable (if it isn't already), and use this value as default if said configuration is not present, so the user has a choice here.
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