Flat File Query

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am working on a MQ to IDOC scenario, where in the message I am posting from MQ is a Fixed Length Flat File.

I have some doubt regarding the Flat File concept.

Suppose there are 10 Segments in the file. And the occurences of few of the segment is 0 to 1 and few other segments is 0 to unbounded.

Now if we take the total Length of the whole File, suppose it is 100.

Now the doubt is if some segment in between whose occurence is 0 to 1 does not occur at all or if some segment occurs multiple times, How does the concept of Flat Fixed Length file comes into picture.

Whether some space will still be allocated for the segment even if its occurence is zero, or what ?

Please Help.

Thanks,

Vikas Mishra

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

If the file is a Fixed Length File then specific length will be allocated for the field irrespective of its occurence.(mandatory/optional)

If its delimiter separated then also space/empty followed by delimiter will be there in the record .

HTH

Rajesh