RE: Suggestions for Creating Data Files w/Packed Decimals In a Limited Environment

["Coy Krill" <coyk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Our iSeries is no longer in-house, we're using a service and I can't
write DDS. I'm lucky I can execute more than just an SQL select
statement. They "caught" me making UDFs and now as soon as it's created
they take ownership and I can use it, but I can't even delete it to try
again when it has bugs. So much for iterative development, but I
digress.

Thanks for the suggestion. I would if I could.

coy

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 12:23 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Creating Data Files w/Packed Decimals In
aLimited Environment

Does the same problem exist if the files are DDS defined? Might be  
worth checking. Also you don't say what the error is when using the  
SQL defined tables - that would be nice to know.

In the past I have always done this kind of stuff using a simple RPG  
or COBOL program. In general I have found it takes less time than  
trying to convince a utility to do something it wasn't designed to do.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



On Jun 23, 2010, at 3:11 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The records I want have packed decimal fields, which is where my  
> problem
> begins. I first created a table using SQL with the appropriate layout,
> however, CPYF doesn't seem to want to copy data from the essentially
> flat file to the SQL defined table.