Re: Fw: text files

It appears that the field always begins in column 165? 

In a case like that my preferred solution would be to define the flat 
file's record as one long field, say, "FullRecord" and also define a 
datastructure named "FullRecordDS" where the field CONQTY is defined in 
the datastructure at column 165.  Then, when needed in the Calcs, "     C  
    MOVE FullRecord      FullRecordDS"   That'd do all the data moves for 
you.  There are several trivial refinements for that solution. 

Toward your solution I'd  offer this:  Don't you have to substring a 
field, not a file?





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"connie amerine" <camerine@midwestexp.com>
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11/16/1999 08:13 AM
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From: connie amerine <camerine@midwestexp.com>
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Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: Fw: text files

 
-----Original Message-----
From: connie amerine <camerine@midwestexp.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 3:12 PM
Subject: text files

Our customer downloads a monthly order on a NT work station to us, I then 
FTP it to the AS/400. Once is it on the AS/400 as a flat file, I am 
attemping to use the file by using substring command to put some of the 
data into a sorted file. Once I use the substring and move the data into 
the physical file, it should be there, but.....I m getting the message 
that the field or indicater is not defined. 
 
5            SUBST<FILENAME>:165CONQTY    5
 
              MOVE CONQTY    CTYQTY
 
The code looks similiar to that...can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
Connie


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