Re: CPYTOIMPF

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Marco,

> Who help me with the command CPYTOIMPF?

I'll try -- what do you want to know?


> I don't know is it is to ask to much, but if it possible could you send
> me a print?

I see from the MI list that what you're really looking for is the manual 
page for the CPYTOIMPF command.  IBM has lots of info in the Information 
center.  Take a look:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/dm/rbal3usingcpyto.htm

Here's an example.  Let's say I have a file named CUSTMAS in a library 
named FILES.  I want to copy it to my PC, which is named 'scottk'.  On 
that PC, I've shared a directory named 'Incoming' and I'd like to put 
the file there.

I want the PC file to be in ASCII and in tab-delimited format, so I can 
open it in Excel.  Here's what I type:

 CPYTOIMPF FROMFILE(FILES/CUSTMAS)
           TOSTMF('/qntc/scottk/Incoming/custmas.tab')
           FROMCCSID(*FILE)
           STMFCODPAG(*PCASCII)
           DTAFMT(*DLM)
           RCDDLM(*CRLF)
           STRDLM(*NONE)
           FLDDLM(*TAB) 


Here's what it means:

TOSTMF tells it where to put the resulting stream file.  On i5/OS, any 
IFS path that starts with /QNTC tells it to use Windows Networking.  It 
will use Windows Networking to find the host named 'scottk', and it will 
send the file to the shared directory named 'Incoming', and the file on 
the PC will be called 'custmas.tab'

FROMCCSID tells the system what the CCSID of the existing data file is. 
  The special value *FILE means it'll look for the CCSID in the file 
description.  On my system, it happens to be CCSID 37 which is the 
flavor of EBCDIC that's used where I live in the United States -- but I 
don't have to hard code that, because *FILE will get it from the file 
itself.

STMFCODPAG is the code page of the stream file it's creating.  *PCASCII 
means that it'll calculate an ASCII code page that's equivalent to the 
EBCDIC one that was specified in the preceding parameter.   Since I'm 
using EBCDIC for the USA in my example, it'll find an ASCII that 
supports the same characters.

DTAFMT tells whether the resulting file should be a delimited file 
(which is what my example shows) or a fixed file.  The difference is 
that delimited files have variable-length fields, and each field is 
separated from the others by a special character. Software reading the 
file will search for this character to know where the field ends, and 
the next one begins.  By contrast, in a fixed format file, the fields 
always start and end in the same positions in the record, so the 
software would need to have a list of from/to positions for each field. 
 Delimited files are more common in data interchange applications 
because they're more "self-describing" (i.e. your software doesn't have 
to have from/to positions coded into it, it can figure it out from the 
data itself)

RCDDLM specifies the special character(s) that denote the end of the 
record.  *CRLF is the standard on Windows systems, *LF is the standard 
on Unix.  Old Apple systems used *CR by itself.

STRDLM lets you specify characters that go around each character field. 
CSV files typically want double quotes (*DBLQUOTE) but most other file 
formats don't use this.

And FLDDLM is the character used (in delimited files) to denote the end 
of one field and the start of another.  In my example, I used *TAB 
because I was making a tab delimited file.  For CSV you'd use a comma. 
For a fixed-format file, you'd set this to *NONE.

Hope that helps.