On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:27:17 +0000, Jackson, Rob wrote:

>The SFTP file-transfer add-on using the SSH protocol on z/OS, at least with 
>the OpenSSH port, is the only one I know of that allows conversion between the 
>beautiful EBCDIC encoding and the podunk, 7-bit, toy-computer ASCII encoding.  
>
No.  It does ISO8859-1<->IBM-1047.  Both are 8-bit encodings.  The 
transformation is bijective.

Don't shoot from the hip.

> ... By default, on z/OS, SFTP is binary; you can elect to translate; you can 
> do much more with Co:Z. 
>
I understand this is so; I've not had the opportunity to use Co:Z.

> ... I have never used SCP; I am not quite sure what the point would be.
> 
I suspect syntactic similarity with the "cp" command.  No great point.

-- gil

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