Invisible character as a separator

I have a description column (VARCHAR2 type) in a table. I need to add a separator (at a pre-determined position which is based on some logic) within the description to identify it in 2 portions. The description with the separator needs to be persisted in the table. I also need to display the description in the online pages, but without the separator.
Eg: If I use '|' as the separator then the description would be -
Databases are|useful
For the online page, I would need to use some kind of trim() in the SELECT query to remove the '|'. The trim() is going to be an overhead and I'm trying to see if this can be avoided.
Is there any special character which can be used as a separator, but doesn't have to be trimmed? Something like a character which exists in the column but is invisible in ouput of a SELECT query.

museshad wrote:
I have a description column (VARCHAR2 type) in a table. I need to add a separator (at a pre-determined position which is based on some logic) within the description to identify it in 2 portions. Not very sensible in data modeling and design terms. You are now forcing a single string attribute (implemented as a database column) of the entity to have an inherent structure and intelligence. And this is not supported by the string data type.
There are two basic approaches to this problem.
If the data model is correct and the string attribute is correctly modeled, then you have a rendering issue - how to display that attribute's value to an end-user. This is a client application issue. It deals with the actual rendering part of the data in the data model. It should be applying the "+split text over multiple lines+" logic.
If the data model is not correct and the attribute contains 2 "sub elements" then that should be corrected. The existing column should be redefined as 2 columns and a single mass UPDATE applied to the table to correct the contents (and create the intelligent data structure). Alternatively, the single column can be re-used and the string data type changed into a structure that supports the required intelligence that is needed. An user defined ADT (Advance Data Type) can be created in SQL to support this structure.
Keep in mind that if you hack the existing column's contents, you are now injecting structure data that is not part of the actual column value. All clients using that table and that column, will now need to recognise that and be able to determine the actual structure for that that column. This is not a sensible approach.

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SEARCH
Variants:
1. SEARCH f    FOR g.
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Note
Like all string processsing statements, you can only use character-type operands here.
If the type of an operand is not STRING, the operand is treated like a type C field, regardless of its actual type, even though no actual conversion takes place.
See Only character fields allowed in string processing.
Variant 1
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Additions:
1. ... ABBREVIATED
2. ... STARTING AT n1
3. ... ENDING   AT n2
4. ... AND MARK
Effect
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Addition 1
... ABBREVIATED
Effect
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[1]   http://www.w3ctutorial.com/tags/ref_ascii
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Some help required please...
Edited by: amitsinhaengg on Jul 22, 2009 2:03 AM
Edited by: amitsinhaengg on Jul 22, 2009 2:06 AM

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2 - How to get a SINGLE SPACE at the END in the downloaded file from UNIX?
thanq

Its there, I am talking abut this -
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Syntax
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2. ... WITH SMART LINEFEED
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Effect
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Effect
: This addition defines the line end marker independently of the access type according to the operating system of the application server, i.e. "LF" for Unix OS390 or OS400, and "CRLF" for MS Windows.
The line end marker is interpreted according to the current codepage. If a code page is explicitly specified using the addition CODE PAGE, the characters of the line end marker must exist be available or be written in accordance with this code page.
Note
: The addition WITH NATIVE LINEFEED is intended for editing files on an application server that can also be accessed by other means. The addition receives the appropriate line end marker without the program needing to know the operating system.
Alternative 2
... WITH SMART LINEFEED
Effect
: This addition depends on the access type:
In files that are opened for reading using FOR INPUT, both "LF" and "CRLF are interpreted as a line end marker. When opening an EBCDIC file with the addition CODEPAGE, in addition to "LF", "CRLF", and the EBCDIC character strings, the corresponding ASCII character strings are also recognized. In addition, the EBCDIC character "NL" (line separator) is also interpreted as a line end marker.
In files opened for appending or changing with FOR APPENDING or FOR UPDATE, the program searches for a line end marker that is already used in the file. In this process, first the end of the file is identified. If no line end marker is found there, a certain number of characters at the beginning is analyzed. If a line end marker is found, this is used when writing to the file. This is also affected by the addition CODE PAGE. For example, ASCII line end markers are recognized and used in a file opened with EBCDIC, but not the other way round. If no line end marker is found or no search is possible (for example, if the file is opened with the addition FILTER), the line end marker is determined according to the operating system of the application server, as with the addition WITH NATIVE LINEFEED.
In files opened for writing using FOR OUTPUT, the line end marker is determined according the operating system of the application server, as with the addition WITH NATIVE LINEFEED.
Note
: The addition WITH SMART LINEFEED is intended for the generic editing of files in heterogeneous environments. The line end marker is recognized and set for different formats. The use of this addition is the best solution for most application cases.
Alternative 3
... WITH UNIX LINEFEED
Effect
: The line end marker is set to "LF" regardless of the access type and operating system of the application server.
The line end marker is interpreted according to the current code page. If a code page is specified explicitly using the addition CODE PAGE, the characters of the line end marker must be available or be written according to this code page.
Note
: The addition WITH UNIX LINEFEED is intended for editing Unix files in which the specific line end markers are to be retained, even if the operating system of the current application server is MS Windows.
Alternative 4
... WITH WINDOWS LINEFEED
Effect
: The line end marker is set to "CRLF" regardless of the access type and operating system of the application server.
The line end marker is interpreted according to the current code page. If a code page is specified explicitly using the addition CODE PAGE, the characters of the line end marker must be available and be written according to this code page.
Note
: The addition WITH WINDOWS LINEFEED is intended for use with MS Windows files in which the specific line end marker is to be retained, even if the operating system of the current application server is Unix, OS390 or OS400.

Inbound HTTP Servicelink Adaptor

Original post by Chad Menke.
I'm having some trouble getting an inbound HTTP Servicelink adaptor to work. I wasn't involved in the install or configuration of the server. How can I find the correct <rc_host>:<rc_port>/IntegrationServer/ishttplistener?channelID=<channel-id> or How can I be sure the Server and IIS is configured correctly?
I'm just trying to do a post from a web page to finish off a task.
The error I get is "IE cannot display the webpage".
Peter Lee - Siemens
10:22am, May 4
I don't believe there's any additional configuration required after the installation of the application, so if it's up and running you should be okay. I'm guessing that you were able to send an outbound message to initiate the post from the web page, which would indicate that ServiceLink is running. But this can be confirmed by clicking the "Check ServiceLink Commnication Status" link on the home tab of the ServiceLink module.
Which version of RequestCenter are you running? I think this call for 2007 and 2008 are exactly the same, but good to know just in case.
I'm also guessing you have the ServiceLink user guide based on the url you provided but just in case you don't the following info is provided in that documentation. Which is provided on newScale's technical document website, http://www.newscale.com/techdocs/. You will need to contact newScale support to get the username and password in order download material though.
<rc_host> is the newScale application server
<rc_port> is the port on which newScale is listening
<channel-id> is the channel ID which uniquely identifies the task to be affected
by the inbound message. Error 503 (Application Error) is returned to the 3rd
party system if the channelID does not apply to an ongoing task.
The channel-id is assigned when your external task is initiated and can be extracted in the outbound message which will need to be saved and feed back in the inbound message. Here's an example inbound transformation to update comments and complete the task.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<message channel-id="10040532:1271857836239:-32095">
<add-comments>
<comment>Sent done action on Tue May 04 14:23:01 EDT 2010</comment>
</add-comments>
<take-action action="done">
</take-action>
</message>
Hope this helps,
Menke
11:28am, May 4
We are on version 2008.3
I'm able to outbound to a DB and write out files. I'm trying to use an HTML Post to end the task, sending back the channel-id. whan I attempt to submit all I get back is, "Page can not display" and the task is still ongoing.. So I'm assuming I don't have the URL correct..
According to my ServiceLink communication status:
it's successfull
it has a servicelink Communication URL. I'm using that URL and Port number as my <rc_host>:<rc_port> followed by "/IntegrationServer/ishttplistener?channelId=<my_channel_id>". this is all in that action property of my form tag.
when I submit my form all I get is "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"
What am I doing wrong?
Patti Richards - Dominion Res...
11:53am, May 4
Go to ServiceLink module in Request Center. Click on link that says "Check ServiceLink communication status" it will give you the fully qualified Communication URL. Make sure the server name is the fully qualified name. It will give you the port # that Service Link is running on. Ours is 8089.
We are using the custom HTTPIWA2 newscale HTTP Adapter, which has the nice option of it storing the channelid, so you don't have to send and worry about receiving it back.
Peter Lee - Siemens
12:09pm, May 4
In 2008.3 there is an option in the administration module to enable and disable webservices, and the default is set to Off. Check this value and see if turning it to "Yes" will fix your issue. Also not sure if RC would require a restart for that to take effect, but if your working dev i'd say try that too just in case.
Menke
12:14pm, May 4
I tried to follow the link provided by the ServiceLink module but all I get is "Cannot display the webpage" message. Does this mean my Server Admin set up IIS wrong?
Patti Richards - Dominion Res...
12:15pm, May 4
If you have access to app server in dev, I would pull the server.log file off /servicelink/log directory. You might see more information there to get a better idea what's going on.
Menke
12:18pm, May 4
WebServices is turned on..
Menke
4:09am, May 5
Thank you for your help! I got it figured out.
Patti Richards - Dominion Res...
5:51am, May 5
what was your resolution? Just curious....
Menke
6:37am, May 5
Well.. it's really stupid.. I was being blocked by the firewall... so I got the firewall rule removed.. now traffic is being logged. However my xsl sheet is erroring or I'm posting with the wrong ENCTYPE. I'm not well versed in xsl style sheets. How do you pull the channel-id from the post to use in the xsl sheet?
Menke
9:21am, May 5
I'm throwing Transformation Exception errors everytime I post. I Even cut and pasted the XSL from above into my inbound transformation. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Patti Richards - Dominion Res...
7:08am, May 6
Can you go into service link home - under messages pick requisition from drop down and search on the req number. Then click on the inbound message and then click on external system message and it will show you the xml.
I found a good way to work is to copy the inbound message to a file. Get XML Spy if you can- i code/debug my XSL there first to get it working. Then, I paste it into service link transformations. XML spy will let you work locally applying the xsl. Much faster development time.
If you send me (or attach) your XML- i might be able to help you with the xslt to get the channel id. I'm not an expert, but have been able to figure out enough to get the job done.
Menke
5:40am, May 7
ok I've tried to do a manual send message using the done.xml file, this fails resulting in a "invalid nsxml" message
The Transform code file contains my xsl transformation and the resulting log entries from the server.
HELP!
transformcodeandlogfiles.txt Done.xml
Allen C
11:13am, May 10
The error message you are getting :
"2010-05-07 07:37:16,130 ERROR [STDERR] SystemId Unknown; Line #1; Column #1; Content is not allowed in prolog."
Seems to imply that there may be an invisible character that is being passed in the XML being sent out. The fact that Line 1, Column 1 would appears to be the "<" character in your done.xml file, but I would double-check your transform code to make sure that nothing is being placed before the character. Even a space will probably cause the XML to be invalidated. There are strict rules for processing the first line (the xml declaration) of an xml file.
You might want to review the actual xml file output in an editor like notepad ++ (which is free) or some editor which will show ALL character in a file (even MS Word has an option to do this), just to make sure that nothing is appearing before the "<" character. Also, verify that the ASCII representative value of the less than character is correct. Some characters may look like the less than symbol but could actually be some other UTF-8 representation. The correct ASCII or UTF-8 value for less than sign is:
Unicode: U+003C
UTF-8 (in hex): 3c
ASCII (in decimal): 60
Patti Richards - Dominion Res...
1:51pm, May 10
Hey, I took your done.xml, imported it into my XML Spy. Applied the newscale schema against it and it validated. (nsxml.xsd). I also applied the XSL against it, and I got no errors. I don't think the problem is with that code.
Just for grins, i called the URL via passed it a channelId of a message that had failed.
In our logs, i got a similar message: (but not the prolog stuff)
2010-05-10 17:39:02,785 ERROR [STDERR] SystemId Unknown; Line #-1; Column #-1; Premature end of file.
2010-05-10 17:39:02,785 ERROR [com.newscale.is.core.MessageExecutor] Exception Occured :-Premature end of file.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
etc.
If you have YES hours, I would post the question to newscale.
Menke
4:12am, May 11
Thanks guys! Your right my xsl amd xml were correct. My problem was the Post. I created a javascript function;
function submitInfo(){
var httpobj = new activexobject("microsort.xmlhttp);
httpobj = ("Post","http://<Server>:<port>/integrationServer/ishttplistener?channelId=<channel-id>",false);
var strxml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><message channel-id='<channel-id'><add-comments><comment>blah blah blah</comment></add-comments><take-action action='done'/></message>"
httpobj.send(strxml);
Worked like a charm. Sent in the xml message so there is no need for a Tranformation on the inbound. Plus we can dynamicaly build the xml message.
Thank you from looking into this for me though.
I'm having some trouble getting an inbound HTTP Servicelink adaptor to work. I wasn't involved in the install or configuration of the server. How can I find the correct <rc_host>:<rc_port>/IntegrationServer/ishttplistener?channelID=<channel-id> or How can I be sure the Server and IIS is configured correctly? I'm just trying to do a post from a web page to finish off a task. The error I get is "IE cannot display the webpage".

Hi Kiran,
You are talking about saving a file in the target director using HTTP Receiver adapter... As per my knowledge it is not possible in a straight fwd. The target should be a web application (obviously) which should recieve the data/xml that HTTP adapter is sending and then should save it in the respective directory. XI HTTP adapter will not do that job for sure. When you use HTTP adapter in XI its job is to deliver the message to the given URL thats it. If XI need to save it as a file then its thru File NFS/FTP.
FYI :
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
This can carry only texts but not a file
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
This is used for transfering files.
If HTTP is mandatory in your scenarion, then then a wep programming to be done at the target end (ASP/ASP.NET/JSP/Servlets/etc..)
Thanks,
Prakash

Itunes doesn't list all of my recent podcasts. My show is Black Tribbles and it only shows episodes through March 2013, however we do at least two shows a week and they aren't listed. The feed works because the show update to my computer. Help please.

Itunes doesn't list all of my recent podcasts. My show is Black Tribbles and it only shows episodes through March 2013, however we do at least two shows a week and they aren't listed. The feed works because the show update to my computer. Help please.

Your feed is at http://blacktribbles.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
When subscribed to in iTunes the recent episodes show, but the Store hasn't updated for some time.
There appears to be an issue with the feed. In the episode 'WRESTLING MARCH MADNESS: Final Bracket & Championship' of 31st March you will find in the 'description' tag the following line:
4. KURT ANGLE
At the end of this line is an invisible character which seems to be wrecking the feed - although it works OK when suscribing in iTunes it won't load in a browser (and I also found the feed very slow to load, which won't help matters with the Store)
This sort of thing usually happens when you paste text in from a word processing application and manage to include one of the invisible control characters. I don't know how easy it will be do do it in Podomatic but you should delete that entire line and retype it to remove this charter.
You should keep an eye on the time it takes the feed to be accessed - if there is a long enough delay (and it was quite some seconds when I tried) the Store may well timeout and fail to read it. At the moment it's showing a cached version from the last time it was able to read it.

Align Right

Hi,
I'am downloading a idox to a txt file with gui_download. And i'm cutting the blank spaces between the fields.but in one ofe the fiels i want that the field appers with all is lenght and with teh value of 0 align to the right. i have used one invisible character (ALT+255) it´s like this:
num(8) value '       0'
but i want to know if there is another way to align the caracter to the right and show all the variable leght in the file without use of the invisible character.
thaks,
Ricardo

Hi ricardo,
1. The right alignment and padded zeros,
   come automatically.
2. just check out this program.
report abc.
data : begin of itab occurs 0,
      f(10) type c,
      n(10) type n,
      f1(10) type c,
      end of itab.
itab-f = 'ABCD'.
itab-n = 5567.
itab-f1 = 'DEFG'.
append itab.
      CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
        EXPORTING
        BIN_FILESIZE                    =
          FILENAME                        = 'd:\def.txt'
        FILETYPE                        = 'ASC'
        APPEND                          = ' '
        WRITE_FIELD_SEPARATOR           = ' '
        HEADER                          = '00'
        TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS           = ' '
        WRITE_LF                        = 'X'
        COL_SELECT                      = ' '
        COL_SELECT_MASK                 = ' '
        DAT_MODE                        = ' '
        CONFIRM_OVERWRITE               = ' '
        NO_AUTH_CHECK                   = ' '
        CODEPAGE                        = ' '
        IGNORE_CERR                     = ABAP_TRUE
        REPLACEMENT                     = '#'
        WRITE_BOM                       = ' '
        TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS_EOL       = 'X'
        WK1_N_FORMAT                    = ' '
        WK1_N_SIZE                      = ' '
        WK1_T_FORMAT                    = ' '
        WK1_T_SIZE                      = ' '
      IMPORTING
        FILELENGTH                      =
        TABLES
          DATA_TAB                        = itab
        FIELDNAMES                      =
      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
      IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
        WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
      ENDIF.
regards,
amit m.

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