Multiple Record Types in sequential files

[fridge]

Hi , I have a file that has two distinct record types of form

RECT1 field1 field2 field3
RECT2 fielda fieldb

Question is what is the easiest way to read this using PX v7.1 (I know there is CFF stage in 7.5)

I believe I can do something with schemas but am new to this and documentation is a bit unclear - though at least it isnt IBM documentation (yet - Doh!)

Any clues greatfully recieved

[bgs]

we also had a similar requirement.we read the records as a single column in a sequential file and depending one the record type we extracted the columns in the transformer.

[Sainath.Srinivasan]

Use a filter stage to seperate and modify stage to change formats.

[T42]

Import as a single varchar record.

Filter/Transform based on the first set of characters.

Column Export/Transform to split up the columns in a specific format.

Play on.

[kduke]

I would split them up into multiple files using grep.

grep "^1" file >newfile

The ^ matches the begining of a line the 1 is your record type.

[benny.lbs]

That is a good way !!!

Import as a single varchar record.

Filter/Transform based on the first set of characters.

Column Export/Transform to split up the columns in a specific format.

Play on.