Problems occured while unloading a DB2 table to a flat file.

lekshmi_ci · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:43 am

While we unload from a DB2 table, we are not able to download the SMALLINT and DECIMAL type fields . What could be the solution for this.

youayshu · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:40 pm

Hi all....

While we unload from a DB2 table, we are not able to download the SMALLINT and DECIMAL type fields . What could be the solution for this.

William Thompson · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:06 pm

youayshu · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:35 pm

No error message.......

But the fields of type DECIMAL&SMALLINT is not viewable in the downloaded flat file? instead some dots&special characters in their place........

What does it mean? actually the file contains the data or not?

Please resolve it at the earliest..........

Thanking you,

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:52 pm

I think your SMALLINT and DECIMAL are unloading by default in binary and packed-dec, resp.

Confirm this by viewing your unloaded data with HEX ON.

Try "INTEGER EXTERNAL" and "DECIMAL EXTERNAL" for display mode.

youayshu · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:45 am

How to try "INTEGER EXTERNAL" and "DECIMAL EXTERNAL" for display mode?Sorry to ask......
Becasuse I dint used it yet........

Then while I tried to put HEX ON......It was showing some Hex characters along with the records.................

Do you have something to suggest?

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:44 pm

INTEGER EXTERNAL and DECIMAL EXTERNAL are options in the UNLOAD statement.

Please show us what your HEX display looks like and what values you expect to see there. You will always see hex chars in hex mode, so that in itself says nothing. Your integer field will be interpreted as pure binary - base2, whereas your decimal field will be interpreted as packed decimal.

youayshu · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:02 pm

Thank you all..........

I got my problem corrected..........

by sorting the outrec&taking it into another flat file with OUTREC option......

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:18 pm

How did that give you the integer and decimal values that previously had been just "dots&special characters"? Please explain.

Shobana Bhaskar · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:57 am

Try viewing it using FIELAID tool... Like how you view a VSAM file.. In general COMP-3 values are not displayable/visible as valid values. This might be a similar situation. I would suggest to view it like a VSAM file.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:22 pm

Hello,

You can use the sort to reformat that data (which wastes machine resources) or you could do as Phrzby Phil suggested and handle the formatting in the unload. If there are 100 rows, it probably doesn't matter. If there are 100 million rows, you are wasting a lot of system resources. . . .