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vaidyasundar
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I am trying to create a fixed length records in a txt file through dialog manager -WRIT command, here is my sample code:

-SET &LINE1 = 'This is Line 1';
-SET &LINE2 = 'This is Line 2';
-RUN
APP FI TESTFILE DISK abs_ep_interfaces/test.txt (APPEND RECFM F LRECL 1000
-RUN
-WRITE TESTFILE &LINE1
-WRITE TESTFILE &LINE2
-RUN

The output I got is one line record instead of 2 lines of 1000 characters.

With RECFM V, I can get two lines but I lost spaces at the end of each line so it can not be fixed length record.

I want each -WRITE command to write a record in separate line and each line should have 1000 characters padded with trailing spaces.

Thanks in advance.

-vaidya

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Francis Mariani
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I have to say this is very strange behaviour - I can't get it to work either. I would open a case with Tech Support.


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Francis Mariani
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Until we get an explanation from Tech Support, here is a possible workaround, as long as you can tolerate a non-blank character as the last character in each row.

-SET &LINE1 = 'This is Line 1';
-SET &LINE2 = 'This is Line 2';

-SET &LINE1X = SUBSTR(&LINE1.LENGTH, &LINE1, 1, &LINE1.LENGTH, 999, 'A999');
-SET &LINE2X = SUBSTR(&LINE2.LENGTH, &LINE2, 1, &LINE2.LENGTH, 999, 'A999');

-*APP FILEDEF TESTFILE DISK BASEAPP/TEST1.FTM ( LRECL 1000 RECFM F
APP FILEDEF TESTFILE DISK BASEAPP/TEST1.FTM
-RUN

-WRITE TESTFILE &LINE1X._
-WRITE TESTFILE &LINE2X._
-RUN


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Waz
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What is happening, is with Fixed length records, are populating to 1000 chars, but are not puting in the CRLF.

If you think of a normal hold file, this is how it works, no CRLF, but when its read with a master, it will read the 1000 chars, then the next.


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<JG>
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Waz is absolutely correct, But please vaidya stop double posting it gets you no where.

Two options use a stream editor such as sed and zap the file

or create a dummy master and table the file and save

-SET &LINE1 = 'This is Line 1';
-SET &LINE2 = 'This is Line 2';
-RUN

FILEDEF TESTFILEIN DISK test1.txt (APPEND RECFM F LRECL 1000
FILEDEF TESTFILEOUT DISK c:\temp\test2.txt
FILEDEF TINMAS DISK TESTFILEIN.MAS
-RUN
-WRITE TESTFILEIN &LINE1
-WRITE TESTFILEIN &LINE2
-RUN

-WRITE TINMAS FILENAME=TESTFILEIN , SUFFIX=FIX , $
-WRITE TINMAS SEGMENT=TESTFILEIN, SEGTYPE=S0, $
-WRITE TINMAS FIELDNAME=DLINE, ALIAS=E01, USAGE=A1000, ACTUAL=A1000, $
-RUN
TABLE FILE TESTFILEIN
PRINT *
ON TABLE SAVE AS TESTFILEOUT FORMAT ALPHA
END

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vaidyasundar
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Francis, Waz, JG - Thank you so much for your responses.

Francis - Your workaround solution is good for now but I have to talk to my users to agree it.
Thank you so much for creating case also.

JG - Your solution is really worked out for my problem eventhough it requires two steps approach. Sorry for putting double posting which is not my intention too. Since I did not get answer initially, so I thought of splitting this question as two questions and I put two other posts so that people can easily catch it and answer it.

Thank you so much for all your help.


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