RE: truncate source PF

At 05:35 AM 12/17/2005, you wrote:

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. truncate source PF (Elvis Budimlic)
>
>We have one source PF with record length of 240 bytes.  Is there an easy way
>to change the record length to something like 122 without losing data?


Elvis:

What kind of "source" do you have in the file?

Just because the file attribute is PF-SRC doesn't mean it must contain "source" for a compile, so what type of data is in there? Are you storing some kind of text and you want to shorten it and preserve word-wrap?

Or is it actual source that might have formatting problems if the records are split?

One general possibility that comes to mind is a QM query and form that does column splitting at word breaks (white-space). I've never done it to an outfile; but even if it's to a spooled file, it can be transformed back to a physical file.

Tom Liotta

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