XCOM Transfer fails with message "XCOMN0456E Cannot open EBCDIC-ASCII translation file."

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - Windows
• XCOM Data Transport - Linux PC
• XCOM Data Transport - z/OS

Issue/Introduction

This document describes what to do if a XCOM transfer fails with message XCOMN0456E Cannot open EBCDIC-ASCII translation file.

Environment

Release: XCOM..01300-11.6-XCOM Data Transport-for AIX
Component:

Resolution

When you transfer a file from an ASCII-platform to an EBCDIC-platform and want to translate the characters during the transfer you can specify with the transfer options a specific translation table. To do this you can code CONVTAB=xxx in the xcom.cnf file used for that transfer ('xxx' stands for any three-character value).

Let's assume you code CONVTAB=ffm. Then you have to make sure that the two translation tables ffmatoe.tab and ffmetoa.tab exist in the directory %XCOM_HOME%/Convtab. If not, the transfer will fail and you will get message:

XCOMN0456E Cannot open EBCDIC-ASCII translation file

in the XCOM log.