Re: Export data format question

So far, just test data being sent. If I wasn't against a deadline,
just to find out, I would be very tempted to throw a dollar sign into
some field. Unlikely that the EOR character they chose would, or even
could, appear in the data. Having written that, it just dawned on me
that it could happen. All the data is entered via 5250. The screens
do not allow lower case. But, a fat fingering of a street address
could well happen. They are looking for the dollar sign followed by
CR/LF, so that would seem unlikely to cause a problem. Could find out
differently at some point, I suppose.

Thanks for the thought.

John McKee

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've seen all kinds of strange requirements - it sounds like another.
Someone probably has a tool that doesn't "see" the cr/lf so they are having
you force another char as the end of record...
Sounds lame, but if that's what they need...
What happens if you have a $ in the data portion?
Jim Franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "jmmckee flinthills.com" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:45 PM
Subject: Export data format question

A vendor wants a record with fixed length fields , followed by a
dollar sign AND a CR/LF.

Leave off either the CR/LF or the dollar sign, and record is rejected.

I don't know if the site uses SQL to parse out the data.  I'm just
curious if there could be some valid reason for a record delimiter and
the CR/LF sequence.

John McKee

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