Re: Making the most, or over-thinking it - SQL for uploads -- WDSCI-L

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Dave

I would check that about DDS-defined - if the PF exists, FTP will fill it byte-by-byte - this works fine if you have only alpha and zoned fields. Packed and integer and float will be a mess. Signs and decimal points and thousands separators will also mess you up. Maybe in a fixed-length setup that is less of an issue, but no guarantee there.

Cheers
Vern

If the PF does NOT exist, it is created as a flat file.

On 8/30/2016 2:54 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08/30/2016 02:10:08 PM:

If it's fixed width column layout why not just create the file on
the system & simply FTP the txt file directly into it?

Presuming you mean a "flat" file with a single field the width of
the text file's record length, you could certainly do that. But, if you
mean a DDS- or SQL-defined, multi-field or multi-column file, then FTP
will not break up fixed-column layout text files into the separate
fields/columns defined on the IBM i.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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