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When writing data to decimal fields with a parallel job the value is preceded by a space and ends with a '.'.

The second field is SQL Type: Decimal, Length: 3, Scale: 0
"B", 000.,"000"

What would cause this behavior?

It's important to know if this is how it's displayed in View Data or how it's stored in the file when browsed or edited in NotePad or another text editor.

The displayed number will have two positions reserved, one for the sign and one for the decimal. Check your output format in the table definition, and perhaps edit the number to remove the space and decimal.

The example above was copied from the .txt file in word pad.

Column Meta Data

SQL type: Decimal
Length: 3
Scale: 0
Nullable: No
Description: <none> Seachable? N
Properties: Field level, Quote = none

That's how it handles decimal values written to a file. If you want some other behaviour, define the output field as a string and use DecimalToString() to get it formatted however you need it.

This will remove the 0's and the space.
Trim(DecimalToString(DECIMALFIELD,"suppresszero") )

Fair enough. Thanks for the information.

Since the output field is scale 0 you could define it as integer and use function
AsInteger(DECIMALFIELD)