Importing Sequential File MetaData Defintion

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Veena K Urs
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Importing Sequential File MetaData Defintion

Post by Veena K Urs »

Hi

Our Source Sequential files have "pipe" as the field delimiter and "comma" as the record delimiter.
The Source File contains 50+ columns

How do we import the defition using the manager, we wud not want to opt for a manual specification of the field/record delimiter, colulmn length etc

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Post by ray.wurlod »

Welcome aboard. :D

Import IS a manual proecss. During import you specify the file's pathname manually, and then its format (in your case the delimiter character, the quote character and whether the first line is column headings). You keep clicking on Preview until the display makes sense, then move on to define the field names, correct DataStage's guesses as to data types, and add data elements (if desired) and descriptions for each column.
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