https://communities.sas.com/t5/Microsoft-Integration-with-SAS/z-OS-Moving-SAS-source-code-from-Windows-to-z-OS/m-p/28728#M546 I would recommend using alternative characters, whenever possible, such as !! for concatenation, instead ||, and also avoid the "not sign" and choose mnemonics like NE instead of ^= depending on your code.<BR /> <BR /> The FTP problem relates to the system-default codepage that's being used when transfering to z/OS (IBM mainframe). Research your options to override the codepage as needed, if you choose to continue with these special characters.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc. Fri, 29 May 2009 17:42:57 GMT sbb 2009-05-29T17:42:57Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Microsoft-Integration-with-SAS/z-OS-Moving-SAS-source-code-from-Windows-to-z-OS/m-p/28727#M545 Hi All, <BR /> <BR /> I have developed a SAS ETL job on Windows developement environment and deployed it on Test environment on z/OS using FTP. <BR /> <BR /> I observed that when the source code is transferred to z/OS though FTP, all the pipe characters ("||") used in the SAS job for concatenation operation are converted to the unwanted junk characters. (In most of the case by character "@@"). Due to these unwanted characters I am getting error during SAS Job execution. To avoid it, every time I transfer the source code, I need to replace these characters manually. <BR /> <BR /> Is there any way by which we can transfer the SAS sources to z/OS without such character replacements. <BR /> <BR /> Please suggest. <BR /> <BR /> Thanks and Regards <BR /> - Kapil Agrawal Thu, 07 May 2009 10:08:12 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Microsoft-Integration-with-SAS/z-OS-Moving-SAS-source-code-from-Windows-to-z-OS/m-p/28727#M545 deleted_user 2009-05-07T10:08:12Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Microsoft-Integration-with-SAS/z-OS-Moving-SAS-source-code-from-Windows-to-z-OS/m-p/28728#M546 I would recommend using alternative characters, whenever possible, such as !! for concatenation, instead ||, and also avoid the "not sign" and choose mnemonics like NE instead of ^= depending on your code.<BR /> <BR /> The FTP problem relates to the system-default codepage that's being used when transfering to z/OS (IBM mainframe). Research your options to override the codepage as needed, if you choose to continue with these special characters.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc. Fri, 29 May 2009 17:42:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Microsoft-Integration-with-SAS/z-OS-Moving-SAS-source-code-from-Windows-to-z-OS/m-p/28728#M546 sbb 2009-05-29T17:42:57Z