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Aniyaa
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When I unload some records from the db2 table . A particular field has got some nondisplayable noneditable characters .
I want to read this field and remove the nondisplayable/noneditable characters from this field.
For eg ABC DEF
The space indicates a nondisplayable/noneditable character .
I want it as ABCDEF
How can this be done.
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agkshirsagar
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| When I unload some records from the db2 table . A particular field has got some nondisplayable noneditable characters . |
What is the definition of that field in table?
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| The space indicates a nondisplayable/noneditable character . |
Non displayable is ok, but could you explain why non editable? |
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Aniyaa
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nondisplayable and noneditable means that even if you open the dataset in edit mode you can't edit that particular character.
for eg , if there is a tab represented by X(05) (in mainframes) in the field |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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FIND P'.' will bring you to non-display type char. It will also let you know the X'??' value.
I will skip over the normal, why do you want to do this? and proceed directly to an answer.
you can change non-display types with a
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CHANGE ALL P'.' ' '
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CHANGE ALL P'.' '' |
the first will replace all with space, the second will actually remove the char, effectively shifting everthing on the line.
in your case, this dumped column is hopefully lined up, (lets pretend that this ABC?DEF is in columns 11 thru 17. then you could use:
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CHANGE ALL P'.' ' ' 11 17
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CHANGE ALL P'.' '' 11 17 |
this will preclude removing non-displays in other columns. |
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Aniyaa
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Actually I forgot to mention that i need to do this using a cobol program.. its not a one-time thing , it needs to be done daily on the input file. I need a cobol statement to do the same.
Suppose the field is NAME from the input file .
I need to ensure that NAME has no such characters.
Sorry I dint' mention this before . |
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Aniyaa
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What I was looking for is something like
INSPECT field-name REPLACING P'.' BY ' '
but the above doesn't work  |
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Aniyaa
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Hi ,
I am happy to inform that i got the solution
its
INSPECT field-name REPLACING ALL LOW-VALUES BY SPACES
its works. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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Good You got the solution,
but.... what about investigating why those hex bytes were there ??? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| INSPECT field-name REPLACING ALL LOW-VALUES BY SPACES |
This will not do what you posted you need. . .
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For eg ABC DEF
I want it as ABCDEF |
The statement you posted will still have a space in the middle. It will also replace x'00' and you mentioned x'05'.
If your orginal requirement was correct, your "solution" cannot work. . . |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Terry Heinze
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| One of the UNLOAD utilities (I don't recall which one) separates the columns of the rows by a byte of X'00'. I suspect that's where the low-value bytes are coming from. |
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