Re: Retaining fixed length on cpytoimpf -- RPG400-L

Don

all of my experience tells me that it is not CPYTOIMPF that is doing this but some other step in the process.

One of the complaints I have about CPYTOIMPF is that it *won't* remove trailing spaces from fixed length fields (it isn't defined as varying by any chance is it), in fact there was recently a thread on midrange-l about exactly this phenomenon, and that is probably where this discussion should take place

Needless to say I'm willing to stand corrected and learn how you managed to accomplish what I've been trying to do for a while now :)

regards
Evan Harris

I have created a 1 field fixed length (16 length) file
on the iSeries and need to copy this file/s to the IFS
or a windows directory while retaining the fixed
length.

I've tried cpytoimpf using many different parameter
settings & also ftp.  In all attempts, the trailing
spaces are trimmed on the target file. I need the
target file to retain the 16 positions with carriage
return.

Does anyone have an idea how I can accomplish this?

An example for file F11001001 is:
> denotes carriage return or end of file.

ISeries value:

School 1100       >
000023            >
000046            >

Target value is:

School 1100>
000023>
000046>

Thank you,
Don McIntyre

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