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Re: ibm i 7.1 technical overview

I've got an article coming out shortly at MCPress that details writing a simple UDF to extract data from an alpha field. I wrote it to help with handling DSPJRN output files, but it works on any flat files.

Joe

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:32 AM,<rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you can't get that to work then try a sql view that uses a udf to
decrypt it. That can go back a few versions of OS.

this is a really good idea. I have a lot of flat files which contain
multiple records in the files. An item on the todo list is to use sql
functions to first identify each record type. And then extract the
packed data stored in the single data field of the flat file.

thanks,

-Steve


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