Re: *BLANKS = spaces?

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, I'm trying to automate a process so I don't have to get involved 
in it.  I
want to send the file directly from the AS/400 to the Virginia New Hire 
Reporting Center.  If
I add a character, I'll have to strip it off, which means I have to process it 
on my PC
before I send it.  I really want HR to be able to do this themselves in a 
one-step all AS/400
process.

(I haven't figured out how to automate the FTP transfer yet either, but I think 
it's
possible.  If not, I'll go the PC route.)

Jim Langston wrote:

> Yeah, the AS/400 does that when transfering files to a PC I've noticed, it 
>dropps
> the trailing blanks.
>
> This can be a bit annoying, especially if you want to import the file 
>transfered into a
> data base file on the PC using fixed width format.
>
> One possible solution for you is to just make it 802 characters and put 
>something in
> the 802nd byte, such as an '.' or 'x' or something.  Not elegant, I agree.  
>In my case
> we were just able to modify the routines that expected the data to not expect 
>each line
> to be the same length.
>
> Now, this is using an FTP transfer using ASCII mode.  I am not sure what 
>happens using
> other file transfers, or BINARY mode.  Although Binary mode would pretty much 
>be worthless
> to you, unless you knew and wanted to convert from EPSDIC (sp?) to ASCII.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Sean Porterfield wrote:
>
> > If I MOVE *BLANKS to a field, is that the sames as *ALL ' ' or having
> > spaces?  I've noticed that the AS/400 generally doesn't seem to
> > distinguish between a blank and a space in most instances.
> >
> > This goes back to my 801 character field - when I FTP it to a PC, the
> > record is only as long as the real data and does not include the
> > trailing blanks.  I need the PC file to also be 801 characters.
> >
> > I tried sending the database file first, then converted to a PC Document
> > and transferred it.  Same result both times.  This may have just gone
> > off topic for this list...
> >
> > Thanks!
>
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