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<Vijaya>
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Hello,

Can somebody please help me.
The process we have is - a text file is downloaded, CSVs are created and these CSVs are uploaded into SQL db.

I have a master file which have a couple of fields defined as:

FIELD=P_COMM_PREM_AMT, ALIAS=P_COMM_PREM_AMT, USAGE=P9.2, ACTUAL=Z9, $
FIELD=P_GROSS_PREM_CREDIT, ALIAS=P_GROSS_PREM_CREDIT, USAGE=P9.2, ACTUAL=Z9, $

When a value of 1000000 is downloaded - in the CSV it is stored as ********. As such the upload to SQl fails. When I manually replace the *** with 1 million it works fine.

I tried increasing the usage to P10.2, ACTUAL=Z10 and the same problem exists.

Confused
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Leah
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Not being familiar with the Z version of data, I decided to look it up. In my IBM mainframe manual from historic useage, I quote, 'Data formats can be used with packed numbers declared with an ACTUAL of less than 8.'

This seems to contradict the Zn where 'n' = 1-31. If the field contains an assumed decimal point, in a usage Pm.d where d is decimal digits, m is the total digits, m must be at least 1 greater than the value of n. So P9.2 could have an ACTUAL of a Z8. However is the field in the CSV file really a packed number? How is the CSV created?
 
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susannah
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Z is zoned decimal; i don't think you want to tinker with the ACTUAL format in your mfd. tinkering with the USAGE is safer.
can you define fields and set them to D9.2 ?
 
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Piipster
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P9.2 for the usage format gives you a total length of 9 including the decimal point and the decimal places. Therefore the largest number you can display in a P9.2 is 999999.99.

I think this is one short of what you need.


Now for the actual format: You are reading a text file? Is this simply ALPHA data and not really a zoned format number? How is the text file created and wehre does it come from?
 
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