FIXED FIELD LENGTH is not constant

Hello Guru's,
This is the question asked in IBM .
What will you do if field length of a field in flat file is not constant or not equal to the FIXED FILED LENGTH ?.
i.e. f1 is of length is 10 and in one row its length is only 9 what will happen and what will you do to overcome this situation.( consider its a FILE TO FILE SCENARIO )
can anyone help me in this regard.
Thanks in advance.

> This is the question asked in IBM .
> What will you do if field length of a field in flat file is not constant or not equal to the FIXED FILED LENGTH ?.
> i.e. f1 is of length is 10 and in one row its length is only 9 what will happen and what will you do to overcome this situation.( consider its a FILE TO FILE SCENARIO )
The ans for this question is very simple.
Since your FIXED FIELD LENGTH is 10 correct. now if any value comes of length 9 or less, then there will be no problem at all. It will work perfectly without doing anything. BUT if your length goes beyond 10 then it will throw an error message which you can see in RWB.
Shorter length is never a problem in case of FIXED FIELD LENGTH.
I hope now you got the ans, but good way to learn is, to create a simple scenario and test it. )
Regards,
Sarvesh

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