Re: CPYFRMSTMF: Copying Data from a Stream File to a Data-base File Without Data Conversion

I did not know that DSPF will do that. I have learned few new things
today.

Thanks list!

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To expand a bit on my last post - DSPF will convert the data to a
readable form, usually. DSPPFM will not - if you throw ASCII bytes into
a physical file, you see garbage - well, you actually see what the
EBCDIC character is for that particular byte value.

Make sense?
Vern

Peter_Vidal@xxxxxxxx wrote:

"If you said no convert, why wouldn't it be garbage?
You didn't say whether you were trying to view from PC or AS400."

Sorry, let me give you more details: it is a .TXT file
and the data is like "fixed space" delimited, like:

BCOMNO BORTYP BORDNO BLINSQ
------- ------ ------ -------
7848 9 082854 1
7848 9 082854 2
7848 9 082854 3
7848 9 082854 7
7848 9 082854 11
7848 9 082854 12

I see the data like that when I open it in Wordpad and when I do EDTF

and

DSPF commands. That is why I know that there is a problem when I have
garbage after the command executes. I use DSPPFM and the garbage is

more

detailed and colorful when I use DBU or WRKQRY to see the data..

By the way, the file TEMPFILE in QTEMP has a record length of 32766 and
its coded character set identifier (CCSID) is 65535. For the stream

file,

I believe is 00437. The job's CCSID is 00037.

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