Re: Delimiter-free Unload Utility

In article <5arq37$57o@news.interlog.com>, John Morton <mortonj@interlog.com> wrote: >Does anyone know of a utility (Informix or other) that will allow us >to unload an Informix table into a file without delimiters? Special >characters are causing our DB2/MVS loads to fail. >... > >This is what we'd like to see (for example) > >123 John Doe 123 Any Street Anytown >156 Frank Smith Anytown > >etc. etc (ie the data is positional, not delimited, in the unload >file) If you have ACE reports (part of the ISQL product) you should be able to do this quite easily (send me an e-mail if you want a quick sample), or the 4gl report writer is slightly more complicated but should also be able to accomplish what you need. Regards, Cathy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cathy Kipp E-mail: ckipp@verinet.com Principal Consultant Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Database Strategies, Inc. Phone: 1-970-226-0240 Informix User Group of Colorado - President International Informix User Group - Board of Directors ------------------------------------------------------------------------