RE: truncate source PF

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Outfile from QMQRY does not wrap - wrap is for print and display 
only. So no help for this problem, unless you CPYSPLF, maybe.

At 05:35 AM 12/17/2005, you wrote:

> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >   8. truncate source PF (Elvis Budimlic)
> >
> >We have one source PF with record length of 240 bytes.  Is there an easy way
> >to change the record length to something like 122 without losing data?
>
>
> Elvis:
>
> What kind of "source" do you have in the file?
>
> Just because the file attribute is PF-SRC doesn't mean it must 
> contain "source" for a compile, so what type of data is in there? 
> Are you storing some kind of text and you want to shorten it and 
> preserve word-wrap?
>
> Or is it actual source that might have formatting problems if the 
> records are split?
>
> One general possibility that comes to mind is a QM query and form 
> that does column splitting at word breaks (white-space). I've never 
> done it to an outfile; but even if it's to a spooled file, it can be 
> transformed back to a physical file.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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