Thanks for response. The problem is that I also get the error

501 unrecognized SITE command

I thought that "quote" just passed on the rest of the command, i.e. site .....
>Claude,
>
>The 'quote' is not FTP commnad. It's the FTP client you're using command that directs it to send whatever follows to the remote FTP server. The FTP command in this case is 'site'. IOW, drop 'quote'

>ofto.ftpcommand('site ...',...)
>

>
>>I am using FTP CLASS 202 to FTP files to VM and MVS. I need to issue commands such as
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>>quote site fixrecfm   in VM
>>quote site lrecl nnn  in VM and MVS
>>quote site recfm(fb)  in MVS
>>quote site space(n,m) in MVS
>>quote site rlse       in MVS
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>>My problem is that if command
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>>ofto.ftpcommand('quote ...',...)
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>>I get the error message
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>>500 unknown 'quot' command
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