Re: Retaining fixed length on cpytoimpf

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Don

all of my experience tells me that it is not CPYTOIMPF that is doing this 
but some other step in the process.

One of the complaints I have about CPYTOIMPF is that it *won't* remove 
trailing spaces from fixed length fields (it isn't defined as varying by 
any chance is it),  in fact there was recently a thread on midrange-l about 
exactly this phenomenon, and that is probably where this discussion should 
take place

Needless to say I'm willing to stand corrected and learn how you managed to 
accomplish what I've been trying to do for a while now :)

regards
Evan Harris

> I have created a 1 field fixed length (16 length) file
> on the iSeries and need to copy this file/s to the IFS
> or a windows directory while retaining the fixed
> length.
>
> I've tried cpytoimpf using many different parameter
> settings & also ftp.  In all attempts, the trailing
> spaces are trimmed on the target file. I need the
> target file to retain the 16 positions with carriage
> return.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how I can accomplish this?
>
> An example for file F11001001 is:
> > denotes carriage return or end of file.
>
> ISeries value:
>
> School 1100       >
> 000023            >
> 000046            >
>
> Target value is:
>
> School 1100>
> 000023>
> 000046>
>
> Thank you,
> Don McIntyre