Two formats in same flat file
Hi,
I have a mapping where I extract the data from certain tables into a flat file. This works perfectly.
Now the requirement is to add a row at the end with some other details like number of rows, date, etc. The format is different.
So I tried creating a second file operator and putting it in the same mapping. But OWB wouldn't allow that as I got -
VLD-2359: The following targets have identical file names and locations specified as configuration parameters: ORDER_NUMBER_FILE_1,ORDER_DATE_FILE_1. This will cause errors trying to write to the target file. Configure the mapping to correct this error.
Someone must've done this before. What problems did you encounter?
Thanks
Hi
As the error suggest, it might just not be possible to do this straight in OWB. I am not saying it isn't possible, but I at least don't know of a way to achieve this. An easy work-around would be to have your second mapping just write to a second file, which would actually be the same file on the OS lever (i.e. use symbolic links in Unix. perhaps a shortcut in Windows works as well). It's not the clean way of doing it all in OWB, but it should work fine.
Another way would be to add a third mapping after these initial two that read in the two target files as simply single field files (one long row) and write the both out in to the final target.
Borkur
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Also possibly 4. Can you specify line endings in TXT/CSV imports?As far as I've found, there's no way to specify that B1i doesn't normalize spaces for you in an input Msg. I ended up splitting the incoming message line to its individual columns using the Regex format descriptor. That way, I was able to track the integrity of each component of the message.
However, when writing out to the same file format using the TXT file type, B1i is inserting commas between the columns, despite:
1. Being TXT format, which shouldn't use delimiters.
2. Having the delimiter field empty. It correctly ignores this field, even if it does insert a delimiter.
3. Specifying no delimiter explicitly using <FileOut type="file_full">/<Control><deli>.
It seems odd that the included means for writing raw text would mangle the output message so.
Has anyone successfully written data to a TXT file with no delimiter? -
Hi Everyone:
We have a situation where we need to process an outbound IDoc through XI and create a flat IDoc file on a file server.
Everything works fine, but when file is created; it's in XML format. I have done the configuration in SXMB_ADM, so that it won't convert the IDoc to XML, but it still does i.e. segments and fields tags are added before and after the values. For example,
<Z1JBRS SEGMENT="1">
<CTEUSR>SOMEUSER</CTEUSR>
<CTEDTE>20000906</CTEDTE>
<CHEUSR>No User</CHEUSR>
<CHEDTE>00000000</CHEDTE>
<CHETME>000000</CHETME>
</Z1JBRS>
All I want is to create the same flat file that will get created if I use the "rfcexec"/"startrfc" criteria from SAP, which transfers the file to EDI Sub-System. Has anyone come across this situation? Any information / direction / suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks,
JBHi,
If it Idoc is passing thru XI, then it will convert into xml as XI can understand xml format.,
So if you want to get flat file, you need to convert xml into flat structure,. For this you need to use option of "File Content Conversion" in File Reciever Communication channel. If so, you need to configure content conversion for this.
Refer this guide-
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/46759682-0401-0010-1791-bd1972bc0b8a
Regards,
Moorthy
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