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by patrickthatcher@gmail.com
Thu Jan 04, 2018 12:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: complex mainframe cfd import error
Replies: 1
Views: 4482

complex mainframe cfd import error

Ugg. I knew my cockiness would finally come back and bite me. I was given this rather lengthy layout and I'm having many issues trying to load. The first issue I get is a 'PIC' PICTURE character string format must have at least a 9, A, G, N, or X symbol. I notice that most if not all the errors happ...
by patrickthatcher@gmail.com
Mon Nov 27, 2017 12:35 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: EBCDIC - multi copybooks, recordId and link col err
Replies: 9
Views: 6167

Thanks FranklinE. I had left this page up over the long weekend and didn't see the other responses. Let me make the suggested changes and reimport
by patrickthatcher@gmail.com
Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: EBCDIC - multi copybooks, recordId and link col err
Replies: 9
Views: 6167

Is your Starts in Column property set correctly? ... I believe so. Here's the COBOL layout shown on Layout tab Header Column Picture clause Starting column Ending column Storage length 01 HEADER (26) 02 RDK00_FILE PIC X(3). 1 3 3 02 RDK00_PGM_ID PIC X(3). 4 6 3 02 RDK00_PGM_NBR PIC S9(3) COMP-3. 7 ...
by patrickthatcher@gmail.com
Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:05 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: EBCDIC - multi copybooks, recordId and link col err
Replies: 9
Views: 6167

EBCDIC - multi copybooks, recordId and link col err

First time using CFF stage. Sorry for what maybe a simple question but I've searched the Google and this site and can't find my particular problem. I'm having multiple issues that maybe readily apparent to someone. Background: We downloaded a mainframe file to our unix server that we need to convert...