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The Question is: I want to transfer a file with copy/ftp from Alpha OpenVMS to Siemens BS2000. But looking at destination file on BS2000 it no more contains special characters like "d, V, |, _". How can I change the character_set before sending the file to BS2000. With best regards ... The Answer is : OpenVMS TCP/IP Services uses standard ASCII or ISO Latin1 character set, and does not perform any character translations. Without some specific idea of the character set required for the Siemens BS2000 system and on the particular file(s) involved, the OpenVMS Wizard has no specific suggestions. Various Siemens systems do use EBCDIC as the native character set, this is the same character set used by various IBM computer systems. The OpenVMS Wizard will also assume that the OpenVMS file being transfered is a sequential text-format file, and not a format such as an indexed file -- sequential text-format files containing ASCII or ISO Latin1 characters can generally be accessed on many systems, but file formats such as indexed files requires some form of record management support on the target system. Check to see if the FTP Server on the Siemens system can selectively enable ASCII or ISO Latin1 translation -- on OpenVMS, see the FTP QUOTE command as a start, and see the documentation for the FTP server package used on the Siemens system. Various IBM FTP Servers are known to be able to transfer and translate files, the OpenVMS Wizard would assume the Siemens server would be similar given the overwhelming prevalence of ASCII and ISO Latin1 use among systems participating in IP networks. Tools to translate files between the ASCII or ISO Latin1 and the EBCDIC character sets are available for OpenVMS -- there are a variety of file conversion tools available via DECUS.
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