Multibyte character set (MBCS) support
Data conversion occurs for multibyte data on the data connection when ENCODING=MBCS is in effect and the data type is ASCII. For more information, see the FTP.DATA statement ENCODING in z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration Reference and the SITE ENCODING command in z/OS Communications Server: IP User's Guide and Commands.
If you choose ENCODING=MBCS, you must
specify MBDATACONN with a statement in the FTP.DATA file or with the
SITE MBDATACONN command to name the code pages for the multibyte data
transfer. If you attempt an ASCII data transfer with ENCODING=MBCS
and no MBDATACONN specified, the client receives the following reply:
- 504
- Multibyte encoding set but code pages are not defined.
If the multibyte data that you transfer has
codepoints that cannot be translated, the transfer fails and the client
receives the following reply:
- 557
- Data contains codepoints that cannot be translated.