Re: Use of VARYING fields

From:
http://forums.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?p=222071

IBM support told me that there was a option in the V5R4
upgrade to turn this off. Not sure why we did this.
I deleted QCPTOIMPF data area and it works.

To get the RMVBLANK(*TRAILING, *Leading *Both) to work,
you need to delete (or rename) the
QCPTOIMPF data area. RMVBLANK was
not introduced until V5R4, and so the
command does not support it with the data area specifying V5R2.

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm doing a cpytoimpf file with rmvblank(*trailing|*both) and it's not
removing blanks. PTF thing maybe? I'm on V5R4. Using this command:

CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(WCSRTL/VLDIMAGES)
TOSTMF('/tmp/vldimages.csv')
MBROPT(*REPLACE)
STMFCODPAG(*PCASCII)
RCDDLM(*CRLF)
RMVBLANK(*TRAILING)

gives me this file:

200031716 ,"BERN ","389-042
","BERN-389-042.JPG
","MAIN"
400013986 ,"HAM ","T00275-00
","HAM-T00275-00_DTL_1.JPG
","SUPP"
200031717 ,"BERN ","389-333
","BERN-389-333.JPG
","MAIN"
200031717 ,"BERN ","389-333
","BERN-389-333_OPEN.JPG
","SUPP"
800007892 ,"BERN ","COLL-BELMONT
","BERN-COLL-BELMONT.JPG
","MAIN"
200035111 ,"LEA
","SET-SO-203-33-SLEIGH","LEA-SET-SO-203-33-SLEIGH.JPG
","MAIN"
250026804 ,"SSC ","BO500CA-CAMEL
","SSC-BO500CA-CAMEL.JPG
","MAIN"
250026804 ,"SSC ","BO500CA-CAMEL
","SSC-BO500CA-CAMEL_DTL.JPG
","SUPP"
250026805 ,"SSC ","BO500CH-CHOCOLATE
","SSC-BO500CH-CHOCOLATE.JPG
","MAIN"
250026805 ,"SSC ","BO500CH-CHOCOLATE
","SSC-BO500CH-CHOCOLATE_DTL1.JPG
","SUPP"
800008143 ,"SSC ","COLL-MONTIBELLO-DR
","SSC-COLL-MONTIBELLO-DR.JPG


with the fourth field being very long, and all character fields

'untrimmed'.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

That wouldn't make sense... if you are exporting from a varying,
there's no blanks to trim.

Perhaps you are thinking of the same parm on the CPYFRMIMPF? There,
trimming trailing blanks makes no sense unless you are importing into
a varying field.

Charles

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I thought that only worked when the character fields are VARYING.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM, <darren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Very true, especially if using CPYTOIMPF. Otherwise your fixed

length

fields
can take up a lot of unused space.

FYI, CPYTOIMPF has a 'TRIM' function, if you don't have the benefit

of

variable length database fields. Its called RMVBLANK.


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