I'm not really an expert but seeing as how you haven't gotten any other answers, and I have one or two z/OS Unicode scars, I'll take a stab at this.
Your second question first - sure there are lots of other ways to convert to Unicode. One obvious way - Enterprise COBOL has extensive Unicode support now. I don't *know* if FTP uses the z/OS Unicode translation facilities but I am going to guess it does. Do you have the proper Unicode tables built and installed? What does a D UNI,ALL console command show? Your input dataset is named '...UNLOAD'. If it is an IEBCOPY or TSO TRANSMIT unload dataset I don't think it will survive translation to Unicode because it would include non-character data, and non-character data suffers badly during any character set conversion. Perhaps I am reading too much into the name and your source dataset is pure EBCDIC character data. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Schaeffer Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Converting data into Unicode Hello, I've been tasked with creating Unicode files from a z/OS 1.4 machine and FTPing them to a Unix server. I have tried issuing a FTP with UCs2 subcommand and I keep getting a 40500 return code. This is the FTP commands I'm issuing: [ip address] [user id] [password] PWD UCs2 PUT 'DBXP.SDB2P.PARTTAB.UNLOAD' test.part.unicode.txt CLOSE QUIT Can anyone see what I might be doing wrong? Is there another was to convert the data into Unicode? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
