Re: Truncating records on CPYTOPCD

Well, if you know it's gonna be 400 bytes long on the 400, why not move it
to a structure that's subdiv'd at 94 bytes and write (400/94)+1 records to
the workfile to get the banks needed 400 bytes of info...?  Would that
work?



On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Joe Frank wrote:

> Buck,
> 
> That's not such an uncommom problem.  We had sufficient 
> customer requests for a solution that we included a 
> "fixed-length text" format to our file trensfer 
> package.
> 
> Joe Frank
> Synapse Communications, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> Buck Calabro wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, all!
> > 
> > We have a scenario where we're sending records to a bank
> > via a PC file.  We format the file on the 400, then CPYTOPCD
> > to the PC and use a PC comm pkg to send it to the bank.  The
> > problem is that the bank demands "fixed" (94 byte) records
> > with CR/LF appended.  Some of the records have data that takes
> > up only 30 columns.  These records get "truncated"; on the PC
> > we see 30 columns of data, then a CR/LF.  The bank insists that
> > their application requires the record be padded with blanks:
> > no other pad characters are acceptable to them.
> > 
> > As a workaround, we put a "~" in the last column and created
> > a translate table that translates the "~" (x'A1') to an ASCII
> > blank (x'20')  This works fine, but I can't help but think
> > there's a simpler solution.  I recall a thread about FTP and
> > Win95 reacting this way, but I don't recall the details.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Buck Calabro
> > Commsoft  Albany, NY
> > 
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