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Does that means I can not use DS FTP plug-in to handle the mainframe file with COMP columns and French accent characters content? The other FTP I was using is just for test to validate DS FTP plug-in. I still want to use DS FTP if possible. Is any option here? How can I use DS FTP plug-in with line-...

Are you saying that I should not use DS's FTP plug-in in this case? What is the right way I can test? Thanks. You cannot use the method that I suggested using DataStage FTP since that attempts to parse the contents of each line, and since the format is now wrong it won't interpret the column content...

Are you suggesting to download Mainframe file (having few COMP columns) using ASCII mode? I tried this and I CAN NOT download the file correctly since I can only see first column value (using Datstage data view or open it under Unix) and all other columns value are empty (my COMP column start from 2...

I want to add one more info that my DS designer client does not come with NLS installation.