That's interested I worked Lu 6.2 xref and we never had to specify EBCDIC 
..only binary 

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On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:15:47 +0100, Boris Lenz wrote:
>> 
>> At the risk of not understanding the documentation, I've already tried out
>> every possible combination of codepages in the SBDataconn command that I
>> could think of, without any success. What's your suggestion for
>> SBDataconn?
> Did you specify the same conversion at both ends?  E.g.:
> 
>    quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1)
>    locsite    sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1)
> 
> ...? so whatever perversion is introduced at the transmitting end
> might be undone at the other.
> 
> I had expected that translation would apply not to the names,
> only to the content.  I guess that's wrong.
> 
> Also discussed here recently:
> 
>    EBCDIC
>    MODE B
> 
> ... which transmits the data in untranslated binary.  I don't know
> what happens to data set names.  And that combination introduces
> spurious 0x40 in RECFM=VB data sets; seems to be no problem
> with F or U.
> 
> Walt suggested specifying both names.  That might not play well
> with MPUT/MGET.
> 
> I hate EBCDIC!
> 
> -- gil
> 
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