FCC Send File Adapter - missingLastFields not working

Question

Hi
I have a flat file to capture using the sender File adapter
Parameter as follows:
Header_fieldNames : Key,Name,StaffID,Telephone
Header_fieldFixedLengths :  2,12,10,8
Header_endSeparator : 'nl'
Line_fieldNames : Key,Address,Company,LineText
Line_fieldFixedLengths :  2,20,20,40
However there are times where last field come in missing.
Hence I use the Header_missingLastFields : error
                          Line_missingLastFields : error
However it does not seem to be working as the adapter fails to pick the file from the FTP folder
but if I  replace error with ignore, the sender adapter picked the files and process and send to the receiver adapter.
I need to flagged error in sxmb_moni if last field or last few fields are missing....any advise how could this be achieve ?
Regards
Fred

Answer 1

Hi Freddy,
I think you might like to specify missingLastFields = add. then it will add the missing fields as empty. you can further check if these are empty in mapping and then fail the message or create an alert.
If you specify "ignore" then you will not get those fields in your structure and if you specify "error" then the file will not be picked up.
have a look here
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm
missingLastfields
If the inbound structure has less fields than specified in the configuration then the XML outbound structure is created as follows:
○       ignore
Outbound structure only contains the fields in the inbound structure
○       add
Outbound structure contains all fields from the configuration; the fields missing in the inbound structure are empty.
○       error
Conversion is terminated due to the incomplete inbound structure. An error message is displayed
regards,
francis