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newtofocus
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Hi,

I am having problem reading a mainframe flat file. I get format conversion error on the following field.

FIELDNAME=CP_CAB_QTY,ALIAS=E15, USAGE=P9, ACTUAL=Z9,$

Thanks


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What is the actual format of the Zoned decimal?

If it contains a decimal point then that must be in your USAGE format.

So P9 is in valid if the Zoned value is actually equivalent to P7.2
 
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It takes up 9 bytes in the file with the sign being the last byte. When I look at the field in hex a value of 2 is represented as
FFFFFFFFC
000000002

The file has multiple record formats and a different layout can have spaces in there. I generally deal with packed decimal fields using CHKPCK function, but the function always returns an error code in this case. Any ideas?

Thanks.


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<JG>
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The file has multiple record formats and a different layout can have spaces in there.


Someone has made big mistake somewhere.

A numeric can not contain a space. That implies it is text not numeric.

Options are get the idiots to do it correctly or

Parse the field and change spaces to the correct delimiter. Ugly but your only option.
 
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j.gross
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You need to set up a Master file that accounts for the various record layouts.

See: http://documentation.ibi.com/masterindex/html/html_wf_53/wf53ddlang/vsam9.htm

or search on the keyword RECTYPE


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newtofocus
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I was able to find the solution on the techsupport website. Here is the URL.
http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/73291001.html


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