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I have what I think is a simple question but have not found a simple answer yet. Please clue me in. I need to import a COBOL flat file with a couple hundred fields, 5 of which are decimal COMP-3, and two of which are COMP. I think I see that I may be able to import the COMP-3 fields into a sequentia...

Thanks. I ended up using CASE WHEN to do the comparison logic updates on the fly in the SELECT statement in the ODBC Connector stage. Since the Select is executed on the DB2 database, the original logic using EBCDIC comparisons worked fine. The only iffy thing is that the "Select statement"...

I am converting data load processes currently being done with COBOL and Unix scripts to DataStage. One of the existing queries does comparison selections (<, >, <=, >=) on a CHAR(3) DB2 field which holds mixed alpha and numeric characters. The incoming DB2 data is EBCDIC in which alpha < numeric. On...