Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 10:06 am
FYI - site has been a bit cranky lately, finally able to get in and reply. Also fixed your links so they work now. Neither seems to apply here and the second one notes "Issue is fixed with APAR JR56739 and is delivered with Governance Rollup5" in 2016. If you haven't already, open a case with your official support provider to check.
Never used this tool but going to make an educated guess based on general sequential file metadata handling across the suite. From what I recall - if what it sees during the import looks like a small string, it will treat it as a CHAR rather than a VARCHAR and you'll get the STRING(255) you are seeing... and it only looks at a handful of records to decide what to do. Are your longer values in ALL records or only some records? If the latter, I'd import one where they were right up front and if you don't have one like that, engineer one.
As a general statement, I'm not sure why you can't "edit the defined metadata" if it's not correct. We had to do that all the time when the import didn't get it quite right, be it flat files or Oracle tables or whatever. A people will always be better at inferring metadata than some silly program.
Never used this tool but going to make an educated guess based on general sequential file metadata handling across the suite. From what I recall - if what it sees during the import looks like a small string, it will treat it as a CHAR rather than a VARCHAR and you'll get the STRING(255) you are seeing... and it only looks at a handful of records to decide what to do. Are your longer values in ALL records or only some records? If the latter, I'd import one where they were right up front and if you don't have one like that, engineer one.
As a general statement, I'm not sure why you can't "edit the defined metadata" if it's not correct. We had to do that all the time when the import didn't get it quite right, be it flat files or Oracle tables or whatever. A people will always be better at inferring metadata than some silly program.