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brad-s
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What is IOTYPE in my master file?
How do I suppress it?

I am tabling data out of a FOCUS database and simply HOLDing it in a text file.
The accompanying MAS master file has an entry on the first line
FILENAME=FILE1, SUFFIX=FIX, IOTYPE=STREAM, $

How do I elimintae the IOTYPE setting?

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Brad S.
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Waz
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Why do you want to remove it ?

I think it tells FOCUS how to read the file


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Alan B
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Waz is correct, this setting helps FOCUS read FIX format HOLD type files. It is applicable to later 7.6 and 7.7 release I believe.

There are 2 values, BINARY and STREAM, for IOTYPE and it is internally generated and should not be applied manually to an MFD.


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brad-s
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I tabled the data into a hold file (hold.ftm and hold.mas) from 7.7.03. The hold.mas has the IOTYPE parameter.

When I table that hold file from a 7.6.5 machine, it can not read the file.

Is there a setting in 7.6.5 that I am missing for 7.6.5 to recognize the IOTYPE parameter?


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How did you FILEDEF file hold file ?

Did you specify LRECL and RECFM ?


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Danny-SRL
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See: http://www.informationbuilders.../wf_news_may2011.pdf
On pages 10-12, it tells you all about FILEDEF and IOTYPE (which ws introduced in WF 7.7).


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I hold file as FORMAT ALPHA


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I needed to add the "DATASET='mypath/table2.ftm'" to the mas in order to read the file.
FILENAME=table2  , SUFFIX=FIX     , IOTYPE=STREAM, $
  DATASET='mypath/table2.ftm'
  SEGMENT=table2, SEGTYPE=S0, $
    FIELDNAME=FIELDNAME, ALIAS=E01, USAGE=A100, ACTUAL=A100, $

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