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Florin,

As your explanations are expanding it appears that you need a simple rpg
program with a data structure for your output record.
The data structure is required to unpack the packed numeric fields.

Paul

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Subject: RE: Populate a one-field file from a multi-field physical file

Paul (and Rory)

The CPY command would work fine except that I have many packed fields in the
input file; plus, on the first three positions on the output record I have
to hardcode the record type ('H01' - Header, 'D01' - Detail) (I simply
forgot to mention this in my OP - sorry for that)


Thank you


Florin Todor




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Subject: RE: Populate a one-field file from a multi-field physical file

Florin,

Use a program defined file for the 50 field file. Alternatively you could
just use CPYF with FMTOPT(*NOCHK).

Paul Morgan

Principal Programmer Analyst
IT Supply Chain/Replenishment

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Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:32 AM
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Subject: Populate a one-field file from a multi-field physical file

Hello all,



I have this situation: a physical file having, let's say, 50 fields and
another file having one-field of 2000 characters long; I would like to move
the entire record from the first file to the second one...

Obviously, this could be accomplished using %subst BIF but I could bet
100 bucks there is a better and simpler way (I've tried something with data
structures but I couldn't make it work).

Any suggestion would be appreciated.





Thank you





Florin Todor









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