Using CFF Stage for Mainframe Files

[anshulroy]

Hi,
I am using CFF Stage to read the Mainframe files. Till now , we were getting fixed width Binary file and we were able to read them. When i say fixed width, we used to get files with a dot(mainframe tab) between two columns & we used to add a filler in between of one charachter length to read them. But now, we started getting files where there are two consecutive tabs for some records and for others, there is a value in between.

Sample :-
ABC.123.ASER
ABC..ASER
ABC.123..

With the dots shown above, i mean the mainframe tabs. When we used to get files like the first record, it was pretty easy & working with the fixed width. But now, with the files like the records 2 & 3 in the same file, fixed width column structure is reading the content of the other columns .

[chulett]

That's not any kind of "fixed width" file, that's a simple tab delimited file and it should parse fine if you change the stage accordingly.