Re: Help creating a pipe delimited file

[Richard Reeve <rjrjr64@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

     Record type is always the first field, but employee number doesn't
always exist for each record type.  I was considering adding employee
number to all record types (possibly hidden).

     Being as this whole pipe delimited flat file approach is new to me I
will need some step by
step guidance.

      Thanks for your willingness to help.


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:36 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Probably the go-to answer for most folks on this list is to write
> directly to the IFS using RPG.  Scott Klement, as usual, has some
> great tutorials and examples on this topic:
>
>   http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs.html
>
> If you are even a little open to trying something (slightly) new and
> out of the box, I highly recommend using Python instead:
>
>   http://www.iseriespython.com
>
> There currently isn't much in the way of documentation or tutorials
> for iSeriesPython, though.  (There is plenty for Python itself, just
> not specifically Python on the i, which is a slightly different
> animal.)
>
> John Y.
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