When I tried to FTP the SAS statements to the mainframe, all sorts of invisible characters popped up in the CODE . Evidently each PC keystroke I originally entered while writing my SAS code on the PC ( including line break or tab or capital /lower case
characters) are transferred to the mainframe in the FTP process.
for BASE SAS procedures - basic data steps and Proc tabulates the syntax is the same - so i thought i could place a "copy" of my code on the mainframe and simply add the necessary JCL and libname/library reference statments so it can find the data and generate my output.
this question is NOT about moving SAS datasets between operating systems . I am asking for the steps to follow to move my SAS programming statements from my PC where I have been running PC SAS to the MVS mainframe platform ,