diff --git a/discovery-package/src/main/resources/bin/configure.sh b/discovery-package/src/main/resources/bin/configure.sh
index 4afe056637..3790452fa4 100644
--- a/discovery-package/src/main/resources/bin/configure.sh
+++ b/discovery-package/src/main/resources/bin/configure.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ fi
 
 if [ -e "$SOURCE_FILE" ]; then
     # _BPXK_AUTOCVT is set on some systems and resulted in twice-converted files when run through chtag and sed
-    _BPXK_AUTOCVT="OFF" sed -W filecodeset=ISO8859-1 -e "s|%ZOSMF_SCHEME%|${ZOSMF_SCHEME}|g" $SOURCE_FILE >$DEST_FILE # implicit EBCDIC out
+    _BPXK_AUTOCVT="ON" sed -W filecodeset=ISO8859-1 -e "s|%ZOSMF_SCHEME%|${ZOSMF_SCHEME}|g" $SOURCE_FILE >$DEST_FILE # implicit EBCDIC out
     iconv -f IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1 $DEST_FILE >$SOURCE_FILE
     _BPXK_AUTOCVT="OFF" chtag -tc ISO8859-1 $SOURCE_FILE
     rm -f $DEST_FILE