How to create a fixed length file

Can anyone suggest a simple technique for creating fixed
length files? CSV and delimited files are pretty simple using
CFFILE. Is there an elegant way to create fixed length
files?

Simplest: Use LJustify() or RJustify() on your lines of data.
EG:
<cfset FileLine = RJustify (LineOfText, 128)>

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Creating a Fixed Length File

Greetings,
I'm creating an application that need to create a fixed length file on a UNIX system and need help. I have an internal table(s) which contain structures with fields of different lengths (type c) and so I have a routine that concatenates these fields into a single record to be sent to a file using the open dataset. This process is squeezing out all my spaces and so my fixed length file is lost. Can someone assist in creating a fixed length file from an internal table without using delimiters?
Thanks!

" May be placing a carriage return end of each records
" will solve your problem
class cl_abap_char_utilities definition load.
data : begin of itab,
        field1(1) type c,
        field2(2) type c,
        field3(3) type c,
        field4(4) type c,
crlf(2) type c value cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf. "<<<See this line<<<
data : end of itab.
Data : begin of itab1 occurs 0.
        Field(20) type c.
Data : end of itab1.
Loop at itab.
     Move itab to itab1.
     Append itab1.
Endloop.
Open dataset ........
Loop at itab1.
   Transfer itab1 TO dataset.
Endloop.
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How to handle a fixed length file without newline?

Hi Experts,
I'd like to handle a fixed length file without newline by sender file adapter.
A file like following.
It contains three recores."AAXBBBXCCCCX" is one record.
AA1BBB1CCCC1AA2BBB2CCCC2AA3BBB3CCCC3
I tried that following two parameters set. But only first recored was read.
fieldFixedLengths
fieldFixedLengthType
Please tell me how to handle.
Thanks
Shinya Kawagoe.

For this case we wrote a simple Adapter Module inserting an end of line character after an offset.
This way it can be reused in many interfaces.
And reading the whole file may not be an option in case of large source files. May cause performance / memory issues.
eolbean.offset = <recordLlen>
XMLPayload xmlpayload = msg.getDocument();
byte[] content = xmlpayload.getContent();
byte crlf = 0x0A;
int current = 0;
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int lines = content.length / recordLen;
do
     lines--;
     baos.write(content, current, recordLen);
     if (lines > 0) // if other lines, eol required
          baos.write(crlf);
          current += recordLen;
} while (lines > 0);
xmlpayload.setContent(baos.toByteArray());
baos.close();
Audit.addAuditLogEntry(key, AuditLogStatus.SUCCESS,     MODULE + " Done EOLing.");

Can Open Hub create a fixed length file, not CSV?

I've been given a requirement to produce a file that is not a CSV file, but a file of a fixed length where all of the fields are always in the same positions.
For example, a material "batch" number can be of variable length. They want it to always appear on the file in positions 10-20, even if in some cases it is 10 digits and in other cases it is 4 digits. There should be spaces to fill in the remaining digits.
Can the Open Hub BADI be used to do this? It seems like it always wants to compress the data (so to speak) and stick a seperator in there and the BADI is not helping.
Thanks for your help!
Chris Orlando

Simplest: Use LJustify() or RJustify() on your lines of data.
EG:
<cfset FileLine = RJustify (LineOfText, 128)>

Upload a Fixed Length file in terms of Bytes..

Hi,
Here is my query.
I have a fixed length file that I need to upload into my program from my presentation server.
The file is in a Shift-JIS Format.
The file is a fixed length format. But it is fixed interms of the number of bytes that each column occupies.
Eg. The 1st column takes 8 bytes, the second 15 bytes, so on and so forth. We do not know the no. of characters each column takes... just the numbe of bytes.
This is how I had approached the upload.
I created an internal table with just one field of type XSTRING.
I used GUI_UPLOAD FM with CODEPAGE = `8000`.
But i noticed during debugging that in each record, the moment a SPACE occured in the input file, it would stop reading and go to the next record in the file. Meaning, I loose all the data after the first occurance of SPACE.
Am I missing something here?? Why does the FM truncate after the first SPACE. ??
Do I need to declare the internal table in any other format..??

" May be placing a carriage return end of each records
" will solve your problem
class cl_abap_char_utilities definition load.
data : begin of itab,
        field1(1) type c,
        field2(2) type c,
        field3(3) type c,
        field4(4) type c,
crlf(2) type c value cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf. "<<<See this line<<<
data : end of itab.
Data : begin of itab1 occurs 0.
        Field(20) type c.
Data : end of itab1.
Loop at itab.
     Move itab to itab1.
     Append itab1.
Endloop.
Open dataset ........
Loop at itab1.
   Transfer itab1 TO dataset.
Endloop.
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Fixed length file to xml file

Hi,
Fixed length file to xml files.
i have to generate 2 xml files based on a field in the incoming file. structures of both xml files are same.
I want to know how many target data type ,target msg interfaces have to be created?
Thanks.

Ok got you. Best thing would be to use a simple OS command copy in your receiver communication channel. So do one mapping and generate one file and then use the OS command in receiver comm. channel after message processing then it should work for you.
Regards,
---Satish

Gui_download issue - trailing spaces getting truncated for fixed length fil

Hi All,
I have a requirement where I need to download an internal table as a fixed length file.
The code is as follows:
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
EXPORTING
BIN_FILESIZE =
FILENAME = L_FILE
FILETYPE = 'ASC'
APPEND = 'X'
WRITE_FIELD_SEPARATOR = ' '
HEADER = '00'
TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS = ' '
WRITE_LF = ' '
COL_SELECT = ' '
COL_SELECT_MASK = ' '
DAT_MODE = ' '
IMPORTING
FILELENGTH =
TABLES
DATA_TAB = IT_TEXT
EXCEPTIONS
FILE_WRITE_ERROR = 1
NO_BATCH = 2
GUI_REFUSE_FILETRANSFER = 3
INVALID_TYPE = 4
NO_AUTHORITY = 5
UNKNOWN_ERROR = 6
HEADER_NOT_ALLOWED = 7
Each row in the internal table IT_TEXT is 242 chars long.
The FM is truncatinf the trailing blanks on the file. How do I get the FM to not truncate the trailing blanks in each row?
My internal table has multiple rows and the number of rows on the table should be same as the number of rows on the downloaded file.
I tried setting the WRITE_LF parameter to space.
In this case, the trailing spaces are not truncated(which is as per my requirement), BUT all the rows in the internal table appear in a single line on the downloaded file instead of multiple rows.
I also tried setting the TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS field to space but that does not work either. Spaces at the end of the row are still truncated.
so the requirement is: the spaces at the end of each row should not be truncated and
each row on the internal table should have a corresponding row on the downloaded file.
(it is a fixed length file)
I also tried using the following code
class cl_abap_char_utilities definition load.
DATA: BEGIN OF IT_TEXT OCCURS 0,
       TEXT(242) TYPE C,
       cr_lf TYPE c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf,
      END OF IT_TEXT.
when i compile, i get the following error
The type "CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES" is unknown.
Im using R/3 4.6C. Could this be a problem?
Please suggest a solution for this problem.
Thanks!
Sandeep
Edited by: sandeep reddy on Jul 25, 2008 7:16 PM

Hi,
Try this..This worked..Add a dummy character at the end of the internal table...Then pass trunc_trailing_blanks   = ' '...
PARAMETERS: p_file TYPE rlgrap-filename
            DEFAULT 'c:\test_download.txt'.
DATA: BEGIN OF s_data,
        data TYPE char10,
        dummy,      " Added this.
      END OF s_data.
DATA: t_data LIKE TABLE OF s_data.
s_data-data = 'Test'.
APPEND s_data TO t_data.
s_data-data = 'Test2'.
APPEND s_data TO t_data.
s_data-data = 'Test3'.
APPEND s_data TO t_data.
s_data-data = 'Test4'.
APPEND s_data TO t_data.
* Download.
DATA: v_file TYPE string.
v_file = p_file.
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
EXPORTING
    filename                = v_file
    trunc_trailing_blanks   = ' '
TABLES
    data_tab                = t_data
EXCEPTIONS
    file_write_error        = 1
    no_batch                = 2
    gui_refuse_filetransfer = 3
    invalid_type            = 4
    no_authority            = 5
    unknown_error           = 6
    header_not_allowed      = 7
    separator_not_allowed   = 8
    filesize_not_allowed    = 9
    header_too_long         = 10
    dp_error_create         = 11
    dp_error_send           = 12
    dp_error_write          = 13
    unknown_dp_error        = 14
    access_denied           = 15
    dp_out_of_memory        = 16
    disk_full               = 17
    dp_timeout              = 18
    file_not_found          = 19
    dataprovider_exception = 20
    control_flush_error     = 21
    OTHERS                  = 22.
Thanks
Naren

External tables-Fixed length file

Hi All,
I have a fixed length file that i load daily using an External table. Recently, one of the field, IP length was changed and customer wants to send both old records with 8 byte length and new records with 11 byte length in the same data file, until complete migration takes place.
Will it be possible for External tables to handle this requirement?. Or Is there any other possibility to treat it.
The old file contains 104 fields with IP field position form 490 to 498. Total
The new file contains 104 fields with the IP position from 490 to 501.
Thanks,
Sri.

If the two record types are mixed in the same file, then you will have problems loading them. I can see two possible solutions, in no particular order of preference (using your example data):
1. Redefine the external table something like:
Position (record_type (1:1)
version (2:5)
data (6:41))then parse the remaining fields based on the version number when you select from the external table.
2. Create two external tables over the same file, one for version 1.00 and one for version 1.01 using the LOAD WHEN clause to determine which set of data to load when you select. Something like:
CREATE TABLE version1 ...
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL ...
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
LOAD WHEN (version = 1.00)
< definition for the old format >
and
CREATE TABLE version101 ...
ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL ...
ACCESS PARAMETERS
(RECORDS DELIMITED BY newline
LOAD WHEN (version = 1.01)
< definition for the new format >Then yor processing would use something like:
SELECT ip, last_name
FROM version1
UNION ALL
SELECT ip, last_name
FROM version101HTH
John

Reading a fixed length file

Hi All,
I am trying to read a fixed length file with .DAT extension through an FTP Adapter. I am using a read(polling) operation.
In the file there are three records(H,D,T). The length of all the three records is more than 100.When I am trying to build a schema for that file using native format builder, maximum position that i get is 100 and if i manually try to put the position beyond 100 say 120,while building the schema and then run the composite using the generated schema, the file is not polled from the location So if anyone could help me to clarify my doubts regarding reading of fixed length files.
a. Can i read i fixed length file which contains records whose position is more than 100.
b. If yes, then how do i do that?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.

Here's one way to start. Extend this class for the particular functionality you want:import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
/** Processes binary files which have embedded data records. */
public abstract class BinaryInputFile extends File
* Class constructor.
* @param fileName The input file name.
* @throws NullPointerException if the <code>pathname</code> parameter is <code>null</code>
protected BinaryInputFile(String fileName) throws NullPointerException
   super(fileName);
* Reads the file, one line at a time, passing each line to the subclass� process()
* function.
* @throws IOException if an error occurs.
public void process() throws IOException
   DataInputStream stream = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(this));
   process(stream);
* Process the file data.
* @param stream The input stream.
protected abstract void process(DataInputStream stream);
}

Reading fixed length file with different record types

Hi,
I need to read a fixed-length file with different record types, but the record identifier is in 31st position and not in 1st position.
But if I give 31 as position in File adpater wizard, BPEL takes whole 1-31 as identifier.
How we need to read such files.
Thanks
Ravdeep

hi ,
u cannot use the default wzard for this
use some thing like this nxsd:lookAhead="30" nxsd:lookFor="S"have a look at the below link it has some examples
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/integrate.1013/b28994/nfb.htm

Fixed length file sending to user.

My output filxed length file contains records of length 750 chars.
My problem is I need to emailed such file to user...so the user can download the file & if error is there then, user can correct the values in this file and then rerun the program with this corrected fixed length file.
I can send this fixed lenth file as an attachment also.
How can I send, this fixed length file to the user mail id ?
Could you please help me with the code?
THANKS IN ADV.

it is possible in case of binary files not text files just read Thomas comments in the Blog.
Sending E-Mail from ABAP - Version 610 and Higher - BCS Interface

File Content conversion - IDOC to Fixed length File

Hi,
Scenario : SAP R/3(IDOC) -> XI -> Fixed Length file
IDOC is sending from SAP R/3, XI has to do the mapping and send a Fixed length File to /tmp in XI.
When I am using the message Protocol as "File" in the Receiver communication channel, XML file is writing to /tmp. When I am using "File Content Conversion" as a message protocol,Empty File is writing. Can anybody tell me why empty file is creating. Can we use File content Conversion in this scenario. Is there any additional parameter or settings required?
Receiver communication channel settings:
Message Protocol: File Content Conversion
File type       : Binary
Recordstructure : MT_V_PER01
Name                             Value
MT_V_PER01.fieldFixedLengths     25,35
MT_V_PER01.fieldNames            PERSNR,NAME
File Data Type : DT_V_PER01,
Message type   : MT_V_PER01
IDOC type      : WP_PER01.
Expecting your expert advice.
Thanks
vineesh

Hi Moorthy,
I am getting success messages in Audit log as below:
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success Trying to put the message into the send queue.
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success Message successfully put into the queue.
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success The message was successfully retrieved from the send queue.
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success The message status set to DLNG.
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success The message was successfully transmitted to endpoint http://nslcxi08:8010/sap/xi/engine?type=entry using connection AFW.
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success The message status set to DLVD.
2006-09-29 12:08:53 Success The message was successfully delivered.
I have checked the Payload maindocument,the IDOC structure contains data.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <WP_PER01>
- <IDOC BEGIN="1">
- <EDI_DC40 SEGMENT="1">
<IDOCTYP>WP_PER01</IDOCTYP>
<MESTYP>WP_PER</MESTYP>
<STDMES>WP_PER</STDMES>
<SNDPOR>SAPLCD</SNDPOR>
<SNDPRT>LS</SNDPRT>
<SNDPRN>LCDCLNT210</SNDPRN>
<RCVPOR>LXDCLNT250</RCVPOR>
<RCVPRT>LS</RCVPRT>
<RCVPRN>LXDCLNT250</RCVPRN>
</EDI_DC40>
- <E1WPP01 SEGMENT="1">
<PERSNR>0000100006</PERSNR>
- <E1WPP02 SEGMENT="1">
<NAME>Consumer</NAME>
</E1WPP02>
</E1WPP01>
</IDOC>
</WP_PER01>
Thanks
Vineesh

Content conversion parameters necessary for fixed length file

Hi,
I new to xi.The scenario is that i have to handle a fixed length file where the records repeat after every 80 characters.Can anyone help me as to how thw identify the start of every record based on length
thanks and regards ,
srinadh

Hi,
Hey i have a small doubt.My input is like this
99443 123213 232234 12312 127544 23423
Here i have four recorsetnames namely HEADER1,HEADER2,HEADER3,HEADER4,HEADER5,HEADER6 all the recordsets are of same size but the lengths of the fields in it vary so i specified the following parameters
HEADER1.fieldFixedLengths=1,3,1
HEADER1.fieldNames=value1,value2,value3
HEADER1.endseperator=" "
HEADER2.fieldFixedLengths=1,3,2
HEADER2.fieldNames=value1,value2,value3
HEADER2.endseperator=" "
MY OUPUT XML STRUCTURE SHOULD BE like this
<header1>
<value1>9<\value1>
<value2>944<\value2>
<value3>3<\value3>
<\header1>
<header2>
<value1>1<\value1>
<value2>232<\value2>
<value3>13<\value3>
<\header2>
Is the content conversion parameters i specified enough for that. I wanted to know how would it know the begin of the next recordset(ie the seperation between the two recordsets) .Please help me its vey urgent
Thanks in advance
Sriandh

How to create an XSD for file adaptor which will ignore the records that are not required.

Hi All,
   I have a requirement, the Fixed Length file contains
30013742387462382938742      82347023984623087
30037348237 983743 9837423098 98347
10108472398   98034702398409238 9838472398   09823409238
300163527 387462398746 38746293874693746324763
101037642873643 37438724683746837648 873648736
200138743986493874398
2002738469837246
10003784629837469283746937463987469387
I need to select only the records that startswith 3001 and 3003 which are of different types and ignore the remaining records like 1010,2001,2002,1000.
Can any one help me on this.

You can make use of "conditionValue" or "startsWith" attributes while designing you native XSD.
Check this example - Native Format Builder Wizard - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.3) for better understanding.

How to create a fixed-width column within an APEX 4 interactive report?

This thread is a follow-up to {message:id=9191195}. Thanks fac586.
Partial success: The following code provided by fac586 limits the column width of the Apex 4 interactive report column as long as the column data contains whitespace within a Firefox 3.6 browser:
<pre class="jive-pre">
<style type="text/css">
th#T_DESCRIPTION {
width: 300px;
td[headers="T_DESCRIPTION"] {
width: 300px;
word-wrap: break-word;
</style>
</pre>
Notes:
1. The code above is put into the HTML header section for the page.
2. T_DESCRIPTION is defined as VARCHAR2(2000).
3. The code above works within the Firefox 3.6.12 browser but does not work within the Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 browser.
I tried adding "float: left;":
<pre class="jive-pre">
<style type="text/css">
th#T_DESCRIPTION {
width: 300px;
td[headers="T_DESCRIPTION"] {
width: 300px;
word-wrap: break-word;
<font color="red"> float: left;</font>
</style>
</pre>
Notes:
1. "float: left;" does not require whitespace and successfully splits the column between characters in lieu of whitespace.
2. "float: left;" shrinks the cell height and allows the page background to show through... couldn't determine how to fix this.
3. The code above works within the Firefox 3.6.12 browser but does not work within the Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 browser.
I've done some more research, but I still haven't discovered how to create a fixed-width column within an APEX 4 interactive report that displays properly within an Internet Explorer 7 browser.
Any ideas and help will be appreciated.

Thanks for your help with this!
<pre class="jive-pre">
what theme are you using?
</pre>
A customized version of theme 15.
<pre class="jive-pre">
Floating a table cell makes no sense (to me anyway).
</pre>
You are correct. I was just trying a different approach ... trying to think out of the box.
<pre class="jive-pre">
Think you'll need to create an example on apex.oracle.com with sample data
if there are any further problems.
</pre>
Great suggestion! The code your provided works in the Firefox 3.6.12 browser, but still doesn't work within my Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 browser.
UPDATE:
I have recreated the problem at apex.oracle.com, you can use the following information to check it out:
URL: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=43543:100::::::
Workspace: IR_FIXED_WIDTH_COLS
Username: GUEST
Password: Thx4help
Application: 43543 - CM_RANDY_SD
Note: Table name is TEST_DATA
The following code provided by fac586 works in both Firefox 3.6 and IE7 using default theme "21. Scarlet" at apex.oracle.com; however, it doesn't work when I use a copy of our customized theme "101. Light Blue":
<pre class="jive-pre">
<style type="text/css">
.apexir_WORKSHEET_DATA {
th#T_DESCRIPTION {
width: 300px;
max-width: 300px;
td[headers="T_DESCRIPTION"] {
max-width: 300px;
word-wrap: break-word;
</style>

</pre>
Any idea what in the theme could be causing the fixed width column to be ignored in IE 7?
Edited by: CM Randy SD on Dec 7, 2010 11:22 AM

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