Re: FTP Format

Or use CPYFRMIMPF for some of those formats to parse them. CSV is the one that usually works - the others need special handling, right?


On 11/15/2011 10:54 AM, George Kinney wrote:

My question to the group is: Isn't
FTP just a character-by-character transmission? That is, the item

number

may be 1-5 numbers (1-99999). If only '1' is transmitted, would not

that

mean that everything gets PUT into the wrong locations of an SQL DDL

file on

our system in that case?

FTP isn't 'database aware' for sure, but it doesn't matter. You will be
receiving a file, not a transaction. (or maybe logically it *is* a
transaction, but it'll still be handled like any other file would be)

If the data records are sent in a fixed format, you can FTP them
directly into PFs with matching record formats and they'll be usable
as-is. We do this all the time.

If they are sent in a structured format, like CSV, XML, JSON, whatever,
then you'll have to parse them and then add them to the data base.