554: Multibyte transfer not supported for destination processing

Explanation

The FTP client attempted to send a file to a Network Job Entry (NJE) destination while Encoding was set to Multi Byte Character Set (MBCS), which is not supported.

See DEST statement (FTP Server) in z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration Reference for more information about destination processing. See Encoding statement (FTP Client and Server) in z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration Reference for more information about encoding.

System action

The transfer fails. The FTP server waits for the next command.

User response

If the file you want to transfer is a Single Byte Character Set (SBCS) file, you can send a SITE ENCODING=SBCS command to the server and send the file again. If your client is z/OS® FTP, use the SIte subcommand to send a SITE command to the server. See the SIte subcommand in z/OS Communications Server: IP User's Guide and Commands for more information.

System programmer response

None.