If transferring between Z/OS systems, you can specify EBCDIC instead of BIN or ASCII, and eliminate translation.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 2:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP translation woes >>> On 3/1/2013 at 12:16 PM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so used to transferring files off-platform (to Linux systems), I > forgot that I need to tell the remote z/OS how to translate back from > ASCII to EBCDIC. :-[ To my mind, if you really don't want any translation, a BINary transfer is the only way to go. Removes a lot of uncertainty and guessing. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
