×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
To give a good answer, requires knowing more about the file [a
database file?] and its packed data, how the file and that data needs to
be used [as a database file with the packed data column?], how the data
gets into the DW, and where the DW resides [presumably on an ASCII system?].
If the file is only getting to the i5/OS system as an intermediary,
such that the data is unused except to transform for a push to the DW,
then the best option is to have the data properly exported from the
vendor and eliminate the intermediate step. If the file needs to be
used for its packed data when it arrives from the vendor, then changing
the data in the file would not be best. Copying of data is not ideal,
for its CPU & storage requirements, and thus possibly just a logical
view of the existing data is best. But each /if/ is an unknown for the
scenario, requiring more details.
Regards, Chuck
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact
[javascript protected email address].
Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.
midrange.com
