Process Help FILCOM - convert constant explicit fields into implicit fields

 

Process Name	Menu Path	Link to Command Table
FILCOM	Data ribbon | Data Tools | Tables | Make Fields Implicit	Click here

 

• Introduction
• Files, Fields and Parameters
• Notes
• Example
• Errors

Introduction

Copies any file within the database from the input file to the output file, but compressing the file by turning all those fields with a constant value throughout the file into implicit fields.

How to use

This is of particular use for simple text files - e.g. those established by the INPUTC process - where the alphanumeric field may have been defined in the Data Definition as 80 characters long, but the longest record is only 20 characters. In such alphanumeric fields, compression will be in multiples of 4 characters.

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Files, Fields and Parameters

Input Files

Name	Description	I/O Status	Required	Type
IN	Input file.	Input	Yes	Undefined

Output Files

Name	I/O Status	Required	Type	Description
OUT	Output	Yes	Undefined	Output file.

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Notes

Retrieval criteria are ignored by this process.

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Example

!FILCOM    &IN(FILE1),&OUT(COMFILE1)

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Error and Warning Messages

Message	Description	Solution

 

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