John McKown wrote:
I would avoid "scp" on z/OS because it is "funky" compared to other UNIX scp implementations. I haven't tried doing a z/OS UNIX to z/OS UNIX, on a "real" UNIX scp does a straight binary transfer. But IBM has made their scp translate from ASCII to/from EBCDIC.
IBM's recommendation is to use SFTP which is the same technology and does binary xfers. You'da thunk IBM would have just added a charset translation flag to scp for them what wanted it, but no-o-o ... -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
