RE: Copy from IFS

These are the ways I'd try to deal with this file, in order of how I
prefer them...  If you can't use one, move on to the next.

  1) Read the stream file directly in the program that needs the data.
  2) FTP directly to a PF, skip the stream file.
  3) Try CPYFRMIMPF to convert stream file to PF.
  4) Try CPYFRMSTMF to convert stream file to PF.
  5) Write a program to convert stream file to PF.

If you have the ability to change the program, option #1 should always
work, and it's the most intuitive way to do it, since you're not moving
it from file to file, with chance for errors at each step.

Options 2-4 are the quickest and easiest to implement, but are limited
in what they can do.

Option #5 is a compromise -- and should always work, as long as you're
willing & able to do the programming.


On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 Mike.Windbeck@US.exel.com wrote:
>
> >From what I have been told they do not have record sizes defined for the
> files on the Solaris system.  The file length changes all the time because
> it is EDI data.  That is why if I bring it into the IFS I get all of the
> file with out a defined size and when I do the CPYFRMSTMF it will wrap it
> to whatever length the application needs it.  In my case I need it in a 80
> record length file.
>