Re: Help creating a pipe delimited file

[Richard Reeve <rjrjr64@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

     I am on a tight deadline for this and really need the simplest
approach.  I am not adverse to learning new things and as a matter of fact
would welcome that but am in crunch mode.........

     Thanks for your willingness to help.  I truly appreciate it.

Rich





On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Richard Reeve <rjrjr64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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