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I'm kind of new at this still and was wondering if there was a way to output data in a fixed width format to a text file?

Yeah, you just need to define metadata in sequential file give the file extension as .txt at end of file name and properties should be Fixedwidth
Delimiter=none
record delimited= newline
and try to define metadata exactly as Data length and give data type as char so that is going to be fixed width file.

thanks for the response, so your saying i can use a sequential file stage as my output then?

yeah, you can use sequential file stage, just need to take care about file properties as fixed width file properties.

thanks, didnt know that!

thanks, didnt know that!

bollinenik wrote:give the file extension as .txt at end of file name

Actually, you can use whatever extension you like or none at all, makes absolutely no difference.

for some reason i thought they were only used for input files.. i just tried it and it worked perfectly, thanks again!

Like pretty much all passive stages, they "go both ways". So to speak.