Focal Point Banner


As of December 1, 2020, Focal Point is retired and repurposed as a reference repository. We value the wealth of knowledge that's been shared here over the years. You'll continue to have access to this treasure trove of knowledge, for search purposes only.

Join the TIBCO Community
TIBCO Community is a collaborative space for users to share knowledge and support one another in making the best use of TIBCO products and services. There are several TIBCO WebFOCUS resources in the community.

  • From the Home page, select Predict: WebFOCUS to view articles, questions, and trending articles.
  • Select Products from the top navigation bar, scroll, and then select the TIBCO WebFOCUS product page to view product overview, articles, and discussions.
  • Request access to the private WebFOCUS User Group (login required) to network with fellow members.

Former myibi community members should have received an email on 8/3/22 to activate their user accounts to join the community. Check your Spam folder for the email. Please get in touch with us at community@tibco.com for further assistance. Reference the community FAQ to learn more about the community.


Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     Imbedded packed fields

Read-Only Read-Only Topic
Go
Search
Notify
Tools
Imbedded packed fields
 Login/Join
 
Leah
Virtuoso
posted
Anyone with SungardSCT Plus200 DB2 here? Or anyone who has experienced similar.

We have a control table in our DB2 data base that has a 176 character alpha field that actually contains packed decimal and alpha fields. Vendor solution to Y2K. Our problem is we need to extract the packed fields and convet them to dates, they are the date in the field. In the old mainframe focus days I'd just use a combination of SUBSTR, UFMT and EDIT to get what I needed. However, WebFOCUS pulls the data as alpha only and it converts it to ASCII in the process, so when I try to use the old routines, complete garbage data is the result. Has anyone faced this issue. Also, if I were to 'redefine in the master' with defines would that help.

Currently I use spufi and easytrieve to get the data and create a text file to use on the server.


Leah
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
Francis Mariani
Expert
posted Hide Post
Do you think you could get a View created that would use SQL to do the conversion?


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  

Read-Only Read-Only Topic

Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     Imbedded packed fields

Copyright © 1996-2020 Information Builders