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i5/OS FTP and Unicode Support

Troubleshooting


Problem

Does iSeries FTP support transfer of UCS-2 data?

Resolving The Problem


i5/OS FTP does not support transfer of data in all Unicode formats. Note that FTP is not listed as an
application supporting Unicode in the iSeries Information Center article specifying i5/OS Unicode support,
"Unicode on i5/OS" (or "Unicode on OS/400" in pre-V5R4 versions).

Specifically, i5/OS FTP cannot correctly perform data transfers where the file or directory data send on the
network is in UCS-2 or UTF-16 formats (CCSIDs 13488, 61952, or 1200).

The i5/OS FTP design properly supports UTF-8 data (CCSID 1208), and many i5/OS users successfully
perform FTP transfers using UTF-8; however, IBM has not formally tested this support, and cannot guarantee
that it will work in all cases.

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Historical Number

416092569

Document Information

Modified date:
18 December 2019

UID

nas8N1014939

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