Re: Retaining fixed length on cpytoimpf

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, McIntyre Don wrote:

> 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'm assuming that you're wanting to do this in RPG.  Why am I assuming
that?  Because this is the RPG programming list, so a non-RPG question
would be against the charter.

That said, this should be very easy in RPG.  I'm assuming that you're
already familiar with the IFS APIs.  If so, the main loop to write the
records with the trailing blanks is simple:

    c                   eval      CRLF = x'0d25'
    c                   read      MYFILE
    c                   dow       not %eof(MYFILE)
    c                   callp     write(fd: %addr(myrec): %size(myrec))
    c                   callp     write(fd: %addr(CRLF): %size(CRLF))
    c                   read      MYFILE
    c                   enddo

If, however, you're not familiar with the IFS APIs, then you can learn
about them here:
   http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs.html

>
> 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?
>

Too bad we're discussing this on RPG400-L!  If we were discussing it on
MIDRANGE-L, I might suggest using CPYTOSTMF instead.   Or looking at the
"LOCSITE TRIM" command of the IBM FTP client, or the "quote site trim"
command from a PC FTP client.   But, those don't make sense in an RPG
context.