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Joe Beydoun
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Hello All,

We are a fresh new customer of IBI and we have an issue i am not able to figure out yet.

We have indexed character fields that are right justified in our DB2 tables, we'd like to parm those fields in a report but avoid the user adding the spaces. The LJust command causes the program to halt since i lose my indexing, and lookup tables take too long to load.
We're looking for functionality to do this before sending into the where clause.

Hope i explained clear enought. We're on WF 7.6.10 on an Iseries server.

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Windows Server using DB2 Connect to access data from iseries.
 
Posts: 78 | Registered: December 29, 2009Report This Post
Dan Satchell
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Have you tried right-justifying your user input parm using the RJUST function?

DEFINE FILE <filename>
 USER_INPUT/A<input length> = RJUST(<input length>, <input parm>, USER_INPUT)
END

TABLE FILE <filename>
 SUM/PRINT <column name(s)>
 BY <column name>
 .
 .
 WHERE <indexed column name> EQ USER_INPUT ;
END


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Joe Beydoun
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Dan,

Doing a define does the computation on every field in the file before reaching the where clause, on a 27m record file, it completely slows the report down.

Thanks.


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Danny-SRL
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Joe,

Right-Justified? Is this Hebrew or Arabic?

Are you saying that the user enters a parameter value (in &PARM) and then you want to RJUST it? Could you use:
  
-SET &PARMLEN=&PARM.LENGTH;
-SET &MYPARM=RJUST(&PARMLEN, &PARM, 'A&PARMLEN.EVAL');
...
TABLE FILE filename
...
WHERE field EQ '&MYPARM'
...
END


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Dan Satchell
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Joe,

You are absolutely correct about using DEFINE to right-justify the user input. The Dialogue Manager solution from Daniel is the way to go.


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Joe Beydoun
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Dan and Danny, thanks for the responses, but the issue was resolved using this code since the Parm Lenght function only returned the lenght of characters i typed:

-SET &ITEM = RJUST 10,&ITEM ' ','A10');

I'll take different suggestions if they're available, but i'll call this issue resolved.


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