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Hi All,
I am FTP'ing a file from mainframes to datastage(v8.5) server(linux) which have some special characters in it.

'[' in mainframe file, when FTP'ed are translating to '->' . Have anyone faced any issue with FTP'ing special characters?
In my mainframe file the ebcdic value for '[' is defined as 'BA' , but usually it should be '4A' in order to FTP it as '[' with out any translations.

Do we have to introduce any parameter in FTP stage(Enterprise) to not translate,instead FTP as it is?
i tried using FTP Plug-in stage, FTP'ing file in binary format and changing NLS to IBM1047, but nothing worked out.

Could someone please throw some light on this?

Thanks in advance,
Aditya.

Found the solution. I figured out that the EBCDIC values using on mainframes is of IBM037. I used IBM037 as NLS in datastage FTP stage and Used UNICODE. Sequential file NLS setting is ISO8859-1. All charecters are FTP'ed as is.

Thanks.

Thanks for coming back and posting your solution. Not surprised that it was an NLS issue as there really isn't anything 'special' about the characters you mentioned.