Re: upload Flat file (comma seprated ) taken from XLS to Physical File

You can probably use either the CLIENT ACCESS' - DATA TRANSFER TO iSERIES
Tool. With this, you can easily build a physical file on the iSeries and
load it with your comma delimited file. Just use the wizards to help you
do it one step at a time.

I also have a note about the CPYFRMIMPF command. However, this command
will not work if any of the fields in the .CSV file are blank or zero. The
record looks something like this:

73,"1","1","","4",0,0,"","W 13","","",0
73,"1","1","","5",0,0,"","W","","",0
73,"1","1","","6",0,0,"","W","","",0
73,"1","1","","7",0,0,"","W","","",0
73,"1","1","","8",0,0,"","W","","",0
73,"1","1","","9",0,0,"","W","","",0

To get around this limitation:

Define another physical file, using DDS, identical to the one you want to
copy to, but add the ALWNULL keyword to all fields which could be blank or
zero.
Use Client Access to transfer the spreadsheet, which is in .CSV format, to
a flat file (which you can let CA create for you).
Use the CPYFRMIMPF command to copy the flat file to the new created file
with the null capable fields. (We can use the default delimiters of a
double quote for STRDLM, and a comma for FLDDLM.)
Copy the records from that file to my "regular" file (the one without the
null-capable fields) with CPYF FMTOPT(*NOCHK). The data will be in the
non-null-capable-field file correctly. The null fields in the .CSV will be
blank or zero.

Note: The companion command CPYTOIMPF will not produce a file with null
fields in it; numeric fields with zero values will have a zero. For
example, an amount field would have ".00 ", and blank character fields
will have blank spaces filling the length of the field.

PETER VIDAL
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