On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:03:55 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>I believe that slide refers to "round trips" within the z/OS world only.
>There is no statement that CCSID conversion by a system other than z/OS (such
>as the PC ftp client in your example) will be covered in the 'round trip"
>guarantee.
>
>You have to be transmitting and receiving with the same or a very compatible
>iconv() instance to be able to make such a guarantee. It's remotely possible
>that transmission to a linux ftp client with an iconv() that is compatible
>with the z/OS iconv() *might* support such a guarantee (e.g., z/Linux), but I
>wouldn't bet on it. And Win systems are almost guaranteed NOT to support such
>a guarantee.
>
(More at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/topic/com.ibm.zos.r11.halz001/mbdata.htm
)
Which apparently implies that FTP doesn't support conversion between single-byte
code pages and multi-byte code pages. Why not!?
Otherwise, I'd be inclined to try from a desktop client:
BINARY
QUOTE SITE ASCII
QUOTE SITE MBDATACONN(IBM-1047,UTF-8)
or whatever. Let z/OS perform all the conversion.
-- gil
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