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tbt102

Hi,

I'm new to WMQI and need some advice for setting up a TDS layer for a message that has a repeating group element.

The binary file is FTPed from an OS/390 to a win2k box. The fields in the file contain alph-numeric, numeric, and pack decimal (sign and unsigned). The repeating structure has <CTRL><LF> as a delimiter. The fields have no delimiters however there lenghts are fixed. The message is imported using a COBOL copybook. For this posting I only include the first 3 elements.

COBOL copybook
01 IN_REC.
05 IN_HEADER_REC.
10 IN_ACCT_NAME PIC X(02).
10 IN_ACCT_NO PIC X(01).
10 IN_ACCT_BALANCE PIC S9(09) COMP-3.

Types Compound type and elements.
IN_REC_TYPE
IN_HEADER_REC IN_HEADER_REC_TYPE
IN_ACCT_NAME STRING
IN_ACCT_NO STRING
IN_ACCT_BALANCE INTEGER

HEADER_REC IN_HEADER_REC_TYPE repeats. The repeat property on connection tab is set to YES. The total number of repeats is always unknown.

Questions:
o Should the IN_ACCT_BALANCE length property on the TDS tab be the length expanded (09) or the length of the packed data (05)?
o do I need field delimiter for the TDS work?

Thanks in advance for any help.