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Re: Line-ending for IFS test stream file

On 03-Jun-2015 12:41 -0600, MichaelQuigley wrote:
The whole process is that we export data from the IBM i using
CPYTOIMPF to a delimited file--i.e., using DTAFMT(*DLM) and
RMVBLANK(*TRAILING). Some of the character fields are all blanks. In
the resulting comma separated file, these all blank fields are
rendered as " "--i.e,. Quote,Space,Quote. The PC process which later
uses the data doesn't interpret these as blank fields. So I wrote a
little utility to take out the intervening space between the two
quotes. <<SNIP>>

IIRC using RMVBLANK(*BOTH), if acceptable for a non-blank datum, would resolve the described issue for a datum of all blanks without having to re-process the stream data output by the Copy To Import File (CPYTOIMPF) database export utility.


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