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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mullen, Patrick
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:20 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: FTP VB dataset
> 
> I thought this would be straight forward, but I can't get it to work
> correctly. Trying to FTP a DSORG=VB dataset from one z/OS 1.7 
> system to
> another z/OS 1.7 system. The dataset contains alphabetic and packed
> decimal data. 
> 
> With no special commands, some of the packed data comes out translated
> into different hex values. Adding a 'bin' command resolves the
> translation, but now record structure is lost. Adding a 
> 'quote site rdw'
> doesn't make any difference, but maybe that syntax is incorrect.
> 
> Any ideas? 

discussed many time. Use the ftp command:

MODE B

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