This topic contains information about using the CPYTOIMPF command with delimited import files.
Blanks
- You can use the RMVBLANK parameter to handle blank characters from the
character fields. The RMVBLANK parameter has the following options:
- *NONE: All leading and trailing blanks are retained.
- *LEADING: Leading blanks are removed. This is the default value.
- *TRAILING: Trailing blanks are removed.
- *BOTH: Leading and trailing blanks are removed.
Note: Removal of blanks, as specified by the RMVBLANK parameter, takes precedence over string delimiters. - Null fields
- If a field is null, the field contains two adjacent field delimiters (no data in between).
- Delimiters
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- A delimiter cannot be a blank.
- A string delimiter or a string escape character cannot be the same as a field delimiter, a record delimiter, a decimal point, a date separator, or a time separator.
- A field delimiter cannot be the same as a record delimiter.
- When a string delimiter character is contained by a string, precede the string delimiter in the string with the string escape character specified with the STRESCCHR parameter.
- The defaults for delimiters are as follows:
- String is: *DBLQUOTE (double quotation mark)
- Field is: , (comma)
- Decimal point is: . (period)
- Record is: *EOR (end of record)
- String escape character
- When a string delimiter character is contained by a string, you can use
the STRESCCHR parameter to specify a string escape character for indicating
that the string delimiter character should be treated as a normal character
instead of string delimiter.The STRESCCHR parameter has the following options:
- *NONE: No string escape character is used.
- *STRDLM: The string delimiter is used as the string escape character.
- character-value: The character-value is used as the string escape character.
- Numeric fields
- Decimal points are either a period or a comma (command option).
- Graphic fields
- The string delimiter is placed around all graphic data. If graphic data is contained in the file and the string delimiter is the *NONE value, an error is signaled.
- All fields
- The CAST function in SQL copies the data from the from-file to the to-file. All data is copied and the relative record numbers of the from-file and to-file are the same, unless the from-file contains deleted records. Deleted records are not copied.
- CCSIDs
- The data from the from-file is read into the to-file's CCSID.If
the CCSID of the from-file field is 65535, the data will be converted from
the CCSID specified in the FROMCCSID parameter.
- Date fields
- All date formats supported by iSeries™ can be exported (*ISO, *USA, *EUR, *JIS, *MDY, *DMY, *YMD, *JUL, *YYMD).
- Time fields
- All time formats supported by iSeries can be exported (*ISO, *USA, *EUR, *JIS, *HMS).
- Date and time separators
- All valid separators are supported for date and time fields.
- Timestamp fields
- Timestamp export fields must be 26 bytes.