EFT Server Support for EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) is an 8-bit character encoding used on IBM mainframe operating systems such as z/OS, OS/390, VM and VSE, IBM midrange computer operating systems such as OS/400 and i5/OS, and on various non-IBM platforms such as Fujitsu-Siemens' BS2000/OSD, HP MPE/iX, and Unisys MCP.

EFT Server complies with TYPE E (EBCDIC) mode for FTP-based file transfers (in server mode).

When a client or mainframe uploads a file over FTP/S and requests TYPE E, EFT Server converts the file to ASCII (native Windows format).
When a client or mainframe downloads a file and requests TYPE E, EFT Server converts the file into EBCDIC format and sends it to the requesting client.

EFT Server supports conversion of ASCII to EBCDIC and vice versa. Unfortunately, there are several “standard” mappings and EFT Server currently supports only one of them, the one recommended by Microsoft and IBM. Refer to the following articles for details:

EFT Server does not support the HP standard (used by the dd tool in Linux).

This online help file is for EFT Server version 6.3.x. For other versions of EFT Server, please refer to http://help.globalscape.com/help/index.html.

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Last modified: 20-Dec-11 at 15:59:55