Re: Importing Negative Numbers from a PC File

Hector

Let me recommend that you use CPYFRMIMPF (or CPYFRMSTMF) instead of
CPYFRMPCD - the latter has to be in the old QDLS (folders) file system. It
is slower, and you have many more options with CPYFRMIMPF. Also, you don't
need to be in the system directory to use CPYFRMIMPF.

Is this a file that already exists? Or are you able to create it? If the
latter, I recommend comma-separated-variable (CSV) file. Then you just put
the minus sign at the start of the number, between commas. Numeric
conversions are automatic, whether zoned, packed, or binary.

At 09:32 AM 10/9/02 -0500, you wrote:

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I have a small dilemma.  I need to import data from a PC File (Fixed
Width) to a Physical File and I am using the CPYFRMPCD command in a CL.
One of the fields is an amount that at times could be negative.  Where
should the negative sign be so that the sign is carried into the PF?

Hector Sanchez