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Re: Field Type 'P' in a query

No problem in your asking, Glenn. Turns out you have a difficult one here.

Here's a suggestion, since Query/400 is not handy for doing this. This solution can be used repeatedly.

1. Create a physical file (ASCFIL) that is like your target file, except that the packed fields are replaced by zoned fields.

2. FTP the ASCII file into this new physical file directly - the numeric fields will just get filled in automagically.

3. CPYF ASCFIL TGTFIL MBROPT(*REPLACE) FMTOPT(*MAP)
(or MBROPT(*ADD), as you require)
The zoned fields will get converted to packed automagically. I just verified that this works.

ASSUMPTIONS:
1. The numeric data in the ASCII file has no commas and is all positive, with leading zeroes in place.

HTH
Vern

At 02:24 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote: 
It was an ASCII file I uploaded to the 400.  Our OS version is V5R2.

I am not leaving out information on purpose. It's that I'm extremely unfamiliar with the AS/400.

The source data is a string or CHAR.

Vernon Hamberg wrote:

The terms "flat file" and "externally-defined" don't usually go together in my mind, although they can. As Dan asked, what is the data type of the source? Is it a single character field? What is the formula you are using, if you are using a result field? If the source is character and needs to be substrung and then converted to numeric, this is hard in Query/400 but doable-you can use the MICROSECOND function - can tell you more if you need this ugliness. You'd be better off using an SQL query in a *QMQRY, using STRQMQRY with OUTPUT(*OUTFILE). What release of the OS are you at?

Vern 


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American Trouser, Inc.
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