Re: Question on Cobol (Unix) file layouts...

Don, David and Ed !

Thank you ALL for telling me I'm NOT crazy <BG> at least not in this instance...

That is what I was seeing in the ASCII file (7 positions and NOT 5).

CA doesn't seem to like the decimal positions from the Excel CSV file. If I
change the transfer request, etc. that it it 7,0 everything is fine. Then once
it's on the AS/400 I move it do 7,2 fields.

And David wrote:

<Doesn't this exercise make you more appreciative of the brevity of RPG?
:-)>

AMEN to that <BG> !

Thank you ALL so much for your quick and VERY educational responses !!!

Chuck


Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Hi Folks !
>
> You might not be able to help with this but if ANYONE that has worked
> with ALL kinds of different systems and languages can suffer through
> this, I'd appreciate it !
>
> I have yet another project to get data from our old (and now retired)
> NCR Unix box over to our AS/400 (it is Sales History information). My
> cohort who is the person responsible for the NCR/Unix box and it's
> homegrown apps, had given me what I GUESS you would call file layouts. I
> TRIED to explain to him what I needed ("look at a PF on the AS/400 as a
> reference and then give me the NCR 'file layout' in a similar layout so
> I don't have to do it").
>
> What I got was, again, the NCR "file layout" with a bunch of explanatory
> post-it notes.
>
> As an example:
> FD
> CNVHDR
> Post-it Note translation
>         LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD.
> 01    CNVH-REC.
>         03    CNVH-KEY.
>                 05    CNVH-ORDERNUM                      PIC    9 (6)
> .                   6 numeric
>                 05    CNVH-SEQUENCE                        PIC    9
> .                        1 numeric
>                 05    CNVH-ORDERLINENUM              PIC    999
> .                    3 numeric
>         03    CNVH-DATA
>                 05    CNVH-SYSDATE                            PIC    9
> (6) .                  6 numeric
>                 05    CNVH-BATCH-WSE                      PIC    XX
> .                    2 alpha
>                 05    CNVH-BATCH-BCHSEQ               PIC    9
> .                       1 numeric
>                 05    CNVH-SHIPPEDDATE                   PIC    9 (6)
> .                  6 numeric
>                 05    CNVH-INVOICEDATE                   PIC    9 (6)
> .                  6 numeric
>                 05    CNVH-EXTDSALESTAX                PIC    9 (5) V99
> .          5 numeric with 2 deciimals
>                 05    CNVH-EXTFTOTALORDER           PIC    9 (5) V99
> .          5 numeric with 2 decimals
>
> I am converting this ASCII file through Excel into a CSV file and then
> uploading it.
>
> So I define:
>                     ORDERNUM as numeric 6,0
>                     SQEUENCE as numeric 1,0
>                     ORDERLINENUM as numeric 3,0
>                     SYSDAT as numeric 6,0
>                     BATCH-WSE as 2A
>                     BATCH-BCHSEQ as numeric 1,0
>                     SHIPPEDDATE as numeric 6,0
>                     INVOICEDATE as numeric 6,0
>                     EXTDSALESTAX as numeric 7,2
>                     EXTFTOTALORDER as numeric 7,2
>
> Note the only differences are the last 2. I TRIED making them 5 with 2
> but when I bring it up in Excel to do the "mask" they are CLEARY 7 in
> length and if I do the transfer to the AS/400 it works.
>
> My question is, how do YOU interpret the last 2 fields from Unix/Cobol
> (?) to the AS/400 PF field designation ?
>
> Sorry to bug the list with this if you don't know. My thought was this
> MAY be an internal Cobol file layout that someone would be familiar with
> (I am SURE not and my cohort is not real helpful...)
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
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