Re: Uploading CSV and/or numeric data

["James Newman" <jabezinc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did and that works fine - see 4th sentence in 1st paragraph.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: Uploading CSV and/or numeric data


>
>
>  Consider creating dummy data in the iSeries PF and downloading it to the
PC
>   That creates a FDF that can then be used for the upload.
>
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:30:57 AM
> To: Midrange L
> Subject: Uploading CSV and/or numeric data
>
> 9402-200 running V3R2 (stop laughing Al). The PC running Windows ME
> (everyone else, stop laughing) and CA 3.2 is attached via TCP/IP. I have a
> program which dumps a comma-delimited text file and I'm attempting to get
it
> onto the 400 and into a PF. I've successfully tested creating a file on
the
> 400, downloading that file, and using that FDF to upload data in the same
> layout. I know you can specify that your data to upload is comma delimited
> but when I do that I get a message saying the FDF hasn't been specified.
>
> So I set about to put the data into a format that would be easy to upload.
I
> suck the CSV into Access and use a query to append the data to a table
that
> has custom formats of "000000.0000" which will force the fields into the
> correct lengths, thus creating "fixed width" fields. But exporting the
data
> loses the leading zeros and the decimals aren't aligned. I've tried upload
> numeric fields where the decimals aren't aligned and the 400 puked on the
> non-aligned decimals. So I try exporting the data as text and get the
> non-aligned decimals. Then I notice the "Save Formatted" checkbox which
> offers me the choice of saving in Windows, MSDOS, Unicode, or Unicode
UTF8.
> I try all 4 and while I now get decimal alinged fields, I also get a line
of
> dashes (--------) between each line of data. I could write a VB program to
> strip out the lines with dashes.
>
> In a subsequent test I notice that one of the formats I can export the
data
> in is ODBC. So I select this, attach to the 400, and the file
auto-magically
> appears on the 400. But when I look at the data, the first 3 or 4 fields
> (which are text) look fine but the rest (which are numeric) are gibberish.
> Not hex - I know hex - this is gibberish. Characters I've only seen on
"The
> Matrix".
>
> Is there something really easy I'm missing about:
> 1) uploading a CSV file to the 400,
> 2) dumping the data out of Access in fixed width fields,
> 3) sending numeric data via ODBC?
>
> And yes, I know if I were on V5R1 this would all be a lot easier.
>
>
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