On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:43:18 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote:
>
>UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding (1 to 4 Bytes/"octets" per character), it's 
>not a single byte character set. "sbdataconn" specifies single byte encoding.
>Use "site encoding=mbcs" and "site mbdataconn=(IBM-424,UTF-8)" to  specify 
>multibyte encoding.
>
Remote system type is MVS.
ftp> quote site encoding=mbcs
200 SITE command was accepted
ftp> quote site mbdataconn=(IBM-424,UTF-8)
200 SITE command was accepted
ftp> get TEST.TESTPRT(TESTPRT)
200 Port request OK.
504 Multi-byte encoding not supported for RECFM=FB
ftp>
ftp> quit

... putting us right back at the original problem reported
by the OP.

-- gil

>>
>>The Roman characters in the file as transferred with
>>sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) appear plausible.
>>
>
>IBM-1047 and ISO8859-1 are both single byte character sets.
>
>Norbert Friemel
>
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