diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/plugin.xml b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/plugin.xml
index 066e819af08..d32a5305f9f 100644
--- a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/plugin.xml
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/plugin.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Javier Montalvo Orus (Symbian) - Fixing 176216 - [api] FTP sould provide API to
 Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [186523] Move subsystemConfigurations from UI to core
 Javier Montalvo Orus (Symbian) - improved autodetection of FTPListingParser
 Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [198692] Use FTP LIST -a to list UNIX hidden files
+Javier Montalvo Orus (Symbian) - [225821] [ftp] opening "/home" fails on OS/400 IFS
 -->
 <?eclipse version="3.1"?>
 <plugin>
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - [198692] Use FTP LIST -a to list UNIX hidden fil
             priority="100">
       </parser>
       <parser
-            class="org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.OS400FTPEntryParser"
+            class="org.eclipse.rse.internal.subsystems.files.ftp.parser.RSEOS400FTPEntryParser"
             systemTypeRegex=".*[Oo][Ss]/400.*"
             id="org.eclipse.rse.ftp.parser.OS400"
             label="%FTPParser.OS400"
diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/parser/RSEOS400FTPEntryParser.java b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/parser/RSEOS400FTPEntryParser.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21667e5d7a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.ftp/src/org/eclipse/rse/internal/subsystems/files/ftp/parser/RSEOS400FTPEntryParser.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Symbian Software Ltd. All rights reserved.
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms
+ * of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is 
+ * available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ * 
+ * Contributors:
+ *   Javier Montalvo Orus (Symbian) - initial API and implementation
+ *   Javier Montalvo Orus (Symbian) - [225821] [ftp] opening "/home" fails on OS/400 IFS
+ ********************************************************************************/
+
+package org.eclipse.rse.internal.subsystems.files.ftp.parser;
+
+import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPFile;
+import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser.OS400FTPEntryParser;
+
+public class RSEOS400FTPEntryParser extends OS400FTPEntryParser {
+	 public FTPFile parseFTPEntry(String entry)
+	    {
+		 FTPFile f = super.parseFTPEntry(entry);
+		 
+		 if(f != null)
+		 {
+		 	 // only USER permission is shown in RSE
+	    	 f.setPermission(FTPFile.USER_ACCESS, FTPFile.READ_PERMISSION, true);
+	    	 f.setPermission(FTPFile.USER_ACCESS, FTPFile.WRITE_PERMISSION, true);
+		 }
+		 
+		 return f;
+	    }
+}