Solved the problem--it's an FTP problem, and the local team here found the solution. Following is their respones, in case someone else runs into this: . It turns out the default FTP conversion table doesn’t properly convert the left and right brackets from EBCDIC to ASCII. In order to use the correct conversion table, you need to add another FTP command before you do the ‘put/get’. If you’re doing the FTP from your PC, include the following command: QUOTE SITE SBD=(IBM-037,ISO8859-1) This tells FTP to use the IBM-037 codeset and the brackets will be converted properly. A more detailed explanation is (from an IBM forum): For cases where there is a need to FTP text data to or from MVS containing codeset IBM-037 brackets, it is possible to override our FTP conversion default to use IBM-037 codeset conventions: If the FTP client is running on the MVS side, before the "PUT/GET", execute the command LOCSITE SBD=(IBM-037,ISO8859-1) If the FTP client is running on a remote platform, before the "PUT/GET" execute the command QUOTE SITE SBD=(IBM-037,ISO8859-1) The problem is that the left brackets (x’BA’ in EBCDIC IBM-037) and right brackets (x’BB’) are getting translated to x’8D’ and x’D9’ in ASCII instead of x’5B’ and x’5D’.
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