Re: Removing "BAD" characters from a file

Well - the noise you may be hearing is me hitting my head against a brick
wall

I have tried EVERYTHING
I used the SQL translate against the file that gets created from the
CPYFRMSTMF
I used a small CLLE program - tested in debug mode, interactively - looked
at the file directly after the CPYFRMSTMF and could see the Hex(25), the
sql statement runs and the HEX(25)'s are replaced with HEXS(40)
Beautiful
Changed the program that needs to be changed and started the process - in
batch
Does not work
In debug - when the file that gets created from the CPYFRMSTMF is DBU'ed -
the one record containing the HEX(25) has already been split into 6
individual records BEFORE the SQL statement can be run

Then I followed what was suggested below and created my own table - with
one change
The hex input from the file is 0A that was converted to HEX(25), so I
changed the convert table to be HEX(40) instead

I used a small CLLE program - tested in debug mode, interactively - looked
at the file directly after the CPYFRMSTMF and could see the Hex(25) have
now been replaced with HEX(40)
Beautiful
Changed the program that needs to be changed and started the process - in
batch
Does not work
In debug - when the file that gets created from the CPYFRMSTMF is DBU'ed -
the one record containing the HEX(25) have been split into 6 individual
records as if the Table was ignored

Does anyone think that the fact I run interactively - it works
I run in batch - it doesn’t
Has any bearing on this?


Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shore
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 9:57 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; Tim Bronski
Subject: RE: Removing "BAD" characters from a file

It looks good
I am presently looking into this
Trying to see if a table can be created from a physical file, that way I
can try and keep the table and file in sync

Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
paultherrien
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 9:42 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; Tim Bronski
Subject: Re: Removing "BAD" characters from a file

+1
I have never used this, but this seems like an excellent option. Let the
system do what the system is already doing.

On March 2, 2016 at 9:18 AM Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Another option (if you want to keep the CPYFRMSTMF in place and not
write a pgm) is to create a translation table and specify that on the
CPY. To do this use CRTTBL TBL(yourlib/YOURTABLE) SRCFILE(*PROMPT)
BASETBL(QEBCDIC). This will give you a prompt where you can specify
which characters get mapped to what. You could make all non printables
= blank x40.
Then on the CPYFRMSTMF use CVTDTA(*TBL) and specify your new table name.

On 3/2/2016 3:01 PM, Alan Shore wrote:

Hi Luis
Thanks for your reply

What is interesting is that I never received Robs reply - so Rob -
appreciated - NOT ignoring you

We already have a procedure in place to handle this - and that would
mean writing an RPG program for this file to use that procedure I
was just hoping that someone could see something I could use in an
SQL statement, that I could insert into my clle program, but ity
looks like I will need to bite the bullet on this

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
‘If you're going through hell, keep going.’
Winston Churchill

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 8:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Removing "BAD" characters from a file

Alan,

Besides Rob's excellent suggestion (processing stream files directly
from RPG), assuming you have a BadChar-->GoodChar table already
defined, Why not simply use RPG’s XLATE? It could be something like

(not exact code):

//----------------------------
// Define "holders" for %Xlate
D FromChar S 064 Varying
D ToChar S 064 Varying
//
Clear FromChar;
Clear ToChar;

// Build your translation strings
DoU %Eof;
Read BADHEXCHR;
IF not %eof;
FromChar = FromChar + BHCCHAR;
ToChar = ToChar + BHCREPL;
ENDIF;
ENDDO;

DoU %Eof;
Read File-to-be-translated;
IF %not eof;
Field = %XLATE(FromChar : ToChar : Field ; ENDIF; ENDDO ;

Just an idea...

//----------------------------

Regards,

Luis


Luis Rodriguez

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