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koslo
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Trying to upload a spreadsheet to a flat mainframe file then create an MFD to read that. Saving it as a CSV file and then uploading does give me a comma-delimited file with each row starting a new record. But a comma-delimited file does not have fixed-length fields. What should the MFD look like? Thanks.
 
Posts: 15 | Registered: May 17, 2004Report This Post
drew billingslea
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FILE=XLSFILE, SUFFIX=COM,
SEGNAME=IBIMRDMC, SEGTYPE=S0
FIELD=FIELD1, ALIAS=E01, ACTUAL=A1, USAGE=A1,$
FIELD=FIELD2, ALIAS=E02, ACTUAL=A1, USAGE=A1,$
FIELD=FIELD3, ALIAS=E03, ACTUAL=A1, USAGE=A1,$
FIELD=FIELD4, ALIAS=E04, ACTUAL=A1, USAGE=A1,$

related SUFFIXs: COMMA and COMT

hth,

drew
 
Posts: 46 | Location: San Francisco, California | Registered: April 14, 2003Report This Post
Stan
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It's been my limited experience that based on your version, you may want to try and force a dollar sign after the last comma of each record if it is possible
 
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koslo
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Drew and Stan,

Drew's COM solution is getting me closer. But when adding ,$ to the end of each record I get FOC229 Error reading external file; symbol $ outside of text field is illegal.

Thanks,
Phyllis
 
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drew billingslea
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Do you have DCB information in your ALLOC for the data file?

Perhaps when you added the ',$' you added to the lrecl and the alloc didn't get the new length?

just an idea - i would verify the alloc against the file dcb.
 
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