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> Ah - but if you're files are created on the 400 with the correct CCSID
> (for most of us in North America that would probably be 037), instead of
> 65535 (which means 'Do NOT translate') there would be no problem.

Actually, given that the world had come to depend on them doing the
ascii/ebcdic translations on the fly, and it was the defacto standard, it
would have been nice to at least tell us about this obscure feature as
opposed to having to ferit it out!

> 
> The new CA/400 file transfer that pays attention to these CCSID tags IS
> actually a step forward as it's supposed to handle translation between
> different character sets.
> 

Perhaps so, but when you make a change like this it's nice to
know....ahead of time...

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