  FTP and ASCII to EBCDIC File Conversions? (Siemens 
 The Question is:
 
I want to transfer a file with copy/ftp from
Alpha OpenVMS to Siemens BS2000.
 
But looking at destination file on BS2000
it no more contains special characters like
"d, V, |, _".
How can I change the character_set before sending
the file to BS2000.
 
With best regards ...
 
 The Answer is:
 
  OpenVMS TCP/IP Services uses standard ASCII or ISO Latin1 character set,
  and does not perform any character translations.
 
  Without some specific idea of the character set required for the Siemens
  BS2000 system and on the particular file(s) involved, the OpenVMS Wizard
  has no specific suggestions.  Various Siemens systems do use EBCDIC as the
  native character set, this is the same character set used by various IBM
  computer systems.
 
  The OpenVMS Wizard will also assume that the OpenVMS file being transfered
  is a sequential text-format file, and not a format such as an indexed file
  -- sequential text-format files containing ASCII or ISO Latin1 characters
  can generally be accessed on many systems, but file formats such as indexed
  files requires some form of record management support on the target system.
 
  Check to see if the FTP Server on the Siemens system can selectively
  enable ASCII or ISO Latin1 translation -- on OpenVMS, see the FTP QUOTE
  command as a start, and see the documentation for the FTP server package
  used on the Siemens system.  Various IBM FTP Servers are known to be able
  to transfer and translate files, the OpenVMS Wizard would assume the
  Siemens server would be similar given the overwhelming prevalence of
  ASCII and ISO Latin1 use among systems participating in IP networks.
 
  Tools to translate files between the ASCII or ISO Latin1 and the EBCDIC
  character sets are available for OpenVMS -- there are a variety of file
  conversion tools available via DECUS.
