If you have additional questions you can email me off list.
The line between S390 an USS (Unix system services) is fuzzy at best, the
bottom line is everything in S390 and USS is EBCDIC. So no you cannot use
binary to upload/download text. The FTP client command asc or with the ant
FTP binary
The FTP server runs on z/os or the unix part (not entirely sure but my guess
is z/os), the machine i send from runs NT. Could you explain the TCPIP.DATA,
ASATRANS, CCXLATE and SBDATACONN to me? Are those ftp-server settings or can
i adjust ant's approach to sending files. Cp1252 is the win encoding