RE: CpytoIMPF to a CSV File

Audrey,

Be careful not to let MS Excel confuse the true format of the actual content because of its' rendering intelligence when viewing a csv file.
Excel can display large numbers using the abbreviated format you describe despite the content being a long number when viewed via Notepad.
We avoid this issue by ensuring MS Excel displays these columns as text before saving it from Excel and potentially altering the format in the physical stream file.

peter

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Audrey Guardino
Sent: Friday, 14 February 2014 7:00 a.m.
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CpytoIMPF to a CSV File

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Audrey Guardino <aguardino85@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Is there a way to run this command and keep the integrity of Char
fields that start with a 0?

Below is the command I am executing, when opening the CSV file the
data formats itself in a weird notation, and also removes the last
digit (happens to be a check digit in this case).

Thanks
Audrey

===> CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(TESTFILE) TOSTMF('\path\test.csv')
MBROPT(*ADD)
STMFCCSID(*STDASCII) STMFAUT(*DFT) RCDDLM(*CRLF) STRDLM
(*NONE) NULLIND(*YES)

The field is a UCC id which is defined in the file as 20 Char and the
value of the field is
00007292380143329052

The csv file presents it as 7.29e+15 with a value of 7292380143329050
essentially cutting off the leading zeros (which I can deal with) and
changing the last digit (which is my check digit that I need).

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