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SSH on z/OS for USS assumes text and does conversion.  If your transferring 
files you have to use sftp instead.  scp does translation which is frustrating.

Matt Hogstrom
m...@hogstrom.org

“It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive."
— Hogstrom

> On Apr 15, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Allan Staller <allan.stal...@hcl.com> wrote:
> 
> "The ssh command performs ASCII<->EBCDIC conversion (for pedants, 
> 1047<->819).  I'd expect that to be IBM-specific.  Probably not relevant to 
> security, but additional code that must be supported in an IBM instance, or 
> conditionally bypassed if the sources are merged."
> 
> SSH defaults to binary transfer.  For the issue below (1047-819 translation) 
> a text mode transfer would have to be specifically requested.
> It is presumed that someone that knows enough to request a text mode transfer 
> would be aware of the translation issues.
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