Re: CA File Xfer

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Trying to download file as plain old ASCII text and I know I've done it
> before and don't recall this issue.  It is inserting a space before every
> field?

It's converting the numeric fields to ASCII characters.  To do that, it
needs to reserve space for the positive/negative sign in each field --
that's what the extra space is for.

Also, if you have packed fields or other fields that aren't normally
human-readable, they'll be converted to ASCII text, which will change the
record layout because the fields will take up more space.

If you'd like to circumvent this (I don't know why you would, but...) you
can create a flat file (a file with no fields defined) and use CPYF with
FMTOPT(*NOCHK) to put your data into the flat file.

When you copy that flat file to a stream file, no extra spaces will be
added since it doesn't know where the fields start and stop. :)