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I did not try it, but I think reading the file in RPG as "program defined" will allow you to read, analize and delete if bad.

Booth Martin wrote:

In this instance the data is is only for stress testing. Losing a few dozens of records won't impact what I am doing. and in a live situation this same error would have already ground things to a halt.


On 12/3/2013 3:05 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Many - but can you be a bot more specific? After all just deleting records is rarely a cure (or at least it is one where the cure can be as bad as the disease).

Definition of fields? How were the records created, etc. etc.

On 2013-12-03, at 3:52 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The file has about 2.5 million records. Some of those records, I have
no idea how many, give an error and my RPG program fails. Is there a
way to process the file and delete those troublesome records?

Cause . . . . . : The condition was caused by the program output data
containing below hex 40 ...
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