How to ftp a UTF-8 file from PC to Mainframe ?

songxinqiao · New User Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 6 Location: china

Hi ,

I am trying to ftp a UTF-8 format file from my pc to mainframe server,
but i don't know whether the default ftp can do this ?

Thanks a lot.

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:42 pm

Of course it can do it -- that's not an issue.

The issue will be whether or not the data is usable on the mainframe. And that issue depends upon so many factors you haven't explained: is the FTP in binary or text, if you are doing a text transfer what translation you want to occur in FTP, are you dealing with XML data, are there any non-display characters in the data, and so forth and so on.