Re: Merging two VB files to VB file
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:59 am
I get the same message using Fixed input files. Please post all of your sysout for the step.
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So what? The SYSTEM is telling you the files are fixed length -- and I am going to believe the system a whole lot more than anything you say. The computer does not lie to you. You may THINK you created variable length records, but somehow something has converted them to fixed length.I am telling you that first i have created two input files & one output file by using 3.2 & RECFM=V.
REFORMAT FIELDS=(F1:5,76,F2:5)
JOIN UNPAIRED,F1,F2
OPTION COPY
OUTFIL FNAMES=OUT,BUILD=(5,80,85,80)