FTP Issue Linux to Mainframe

[NoIce]

Hello:

I was wondering if someone can help me out with a FTP issue… I have a batch process setup that uploads data from my linux server to a mainframe. The data that I am uploading contains special char which are uploading incorrectly.

The chars I am uploading are: �明

When the file lands on the mainframe it turns into: ??

Below is the current local char set:

echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

Below is the LFTP command I am using:

lftp $MAINFRAME <<-EOFtp
user FTPDXXX XXXX4MF
debug -o $logfile
site sbd=(IBM-037,ISO8859-1)
site LRECL=$reclength
set ftp:ssl-protect-data true
put -a ${filepath}${linuxfile} -o $mffile
set ftp:ssl-protect-data false
quit
EOFtp

Here is the data on the mainframe in HEX(post upload):

period.unknown =??
9898984A9999A9476604
759964B45256650EFFD0

My goal is to be able to transfer the file to the mainframe with the charset resembling the charset on the linux server....

Just a FYI... I have swapped code pages and have had no luck... maybe I didnt try enough combinations but if someone could help that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

[Rubberman]

I assume you are transferring the data as ASCII and not BINARY. That is probably the source of the problem.

[NoIce]

Nope it didnt work.... after looking at the man page I saw that the default for a LFTP put was BINARY so I changed the put statement to:

lftp $MAINFRAME <<-EOFtp
user FTPDXXX XXXX4MF
debug -o $logfile
site sbd=(IBM-037,ISO8859-1)
site LRECL=$reclength
set ftp:ssl-protect-data true
put ${filepath}${linuxfile} -o $mffile
set ftp:ssl-protect-data false
quit
EOFtp

The result on the mainframe was file with no readable text.
EDIT TEST.UPLOAD.FILE Columns 00001 00072
Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR
****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
000001
000002 äÊÁ/ÈÁ ÃÑ%Á ÍËÑ>Å íèã Ã?Ê_/È ÄÇ/
000003 ÈÑ?>êÁË?ÍÊÄÁˬ:Ǭç. øÊ?øÁÊÈÑÁË
000004
000005 >Å Ï/Ê*ïáâ ñ+ã*Ä%/ËËÁË**øø%ÑÄ/ÈÑ?>êÁË?ÍÊÄÁˬ:Ǭç. íèã øÊ?øÁÊÈÑÁË à *áâñ

Thanks for the try.

[Rubberman]

Why not gzip the data into a .gz file and transfer that as binary data?

[NoIce]

I still need a ASCII to EBCDIC conversion which the FTP transfer is supposed to be doing.... If I zipped the file on the linux server and transfered it as is I would loose that conversion.... I have also tried ICONV (iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-1 input.txt > output.txt) yet that blows up with an error of iconv: illegal input sequence.

[Rubberman]

Ah. I didn't realize that you needed to get an ascii to ebcdic conversion. That's not something I've had to deal with for FTP transfers. It may be that the characters in question do not have a responding character in ebcdic, resulting in the symbols you are seeing.