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FWIW... the biggest problem I have with CPYFRMIMPF is the lack of information when it fails. It doesn't tell you which "record" (i.e., line of text) it failed on, and it's not always very explicit about what the problem was.

So even for one-off projects, I often find myself having to write code that reads the file. I try CPYFRMIMPF, and when it fails and I can't tell why, I have to write a program to figure out what the problem was.

So that's my main complaint with CPYFRMIMPF. Other than that, it works fine. (Assuming that supports the file format, of course.)

CRPence wrote:
If the delimited data is properly formed, then even with no-value delimited data elements, the CPYFRMIMPF should be able to properly import the stream records as database rows\records. The parameter specification of RPLNULLVAL(*FLDDFT) should be specified on the CPYFRMIMPF in order to request replacement of the null values with the field default, for when null values are not supported in the target database file.


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