There are two layers here. You can't say it gets converted to a backslash. More 
correctly it hets translated to a code point that your emulator displays as a 
backslash.


CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity

-------- Original message --------
From: Bill Godfrey <bgodfrey...@gmail.com> 
Date: 03/05/2015  3:21 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: Re: FTP conversion Extended ASCII to EBCDIC 

On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:15:07 +0000, David Booher wrote:

>I have noticed when you are transferring a windows file containing a "not 
>character" (x'AC') using ASCII transfer to the mainframe, it gets converted to
>"backslash" ( \ x'B7') when stored.
>
>Is there any way to get the extended Windows ASCII characters to transfer 
>correctly?

I suspect that the default SBDATACONN at your site is (1047,IBM-850), which 
would translate x'AC' (which is the "1/4" character in codepage 850) to x'B7' 
(which is the "1/4" character in code page 1047).

If you use "quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1)" (if your transfer is 
started from the windows end) then x'AC' will be translated to x'E0' which is 
the "not character" in codepage 1047.

I don't know which codepage you have that tells you x'B7' is a backslash.

Bill 

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