How do I "copy" my SAS code from the PC to the mainframe?

[MGC]

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 , 

[Tom]

Something else must be happening.

Make sure you have saved your code as a text file.

Make sure you have told FTP to copy the file as text rather than binary.

There are some characters that do not map between ASCII and EBCIDIC , but not that many.

Watch out for characters like: ^|[]{}~