Garbage or unreadable format upon uploading RPTEUP10 via sequential file

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We are having problems on uploading file in RPTEUP10 using "sequential file". Upon uploading the file on unix directory /tcddata, the output is unreadable or should i say garbage, but when we try via "local file" the output is readable.

Has anyone encountered this? Hope someone could help here.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Alvin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

May be that output file might be in .xls format or something You are using unix this might be problem.

To avoid this get output in ASCII format or text format. That you can read any where

Warm Regards

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Surisetti,

Thanks for the reply, we are only using the same file in "sequential file" and "local file" and this is only a TXT file. It works well if we use "local file" but garbage/unreadable on "sequential file".

Any other ideas?

Thanks and Regards,

Alvin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

please check this link

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/help/pbcc/sequential_files.htm

Warm Regards

[ted_dinh · Accepted solution]

Alvin :

Per this report's documentation, it's only meant as an example, and not SAP 'official' time interface. Looking at the report, the problem seem to be it reads interface file in application server using binary mode instead of text mode.

I would suggest to clone the report, and change this to use text mode to see if it works.

Rgds.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Guys,

Many thanks for your reply, I tried to clone the file and also tried to input it manually via vi editor in unix. Unfortunately the same result happens, the output is unreadable or garbage.

Any other suggestion? or does anybody here has a sample file that was verified working using sequential file? Maybe if possible I try to upload it on our system and see if its something to do with the file or theres something to be done on the application side

Best Regards,

Alvin

[ted_dinh · Accepted solution]

Alvin :

What I meant is to actually clone program 'RPTEUP10' and change line 'OPEN DATASET FILE FOR INPUT MESSAGE MSG IN BINARY MODE.' to 'OPEN DATASET ... in TEXT MODE. ' , not the data file .

Rgds.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ted,

We tried what you said, clone the program and change it to TEXT MODE. Many thanks to you and Surisetti for the help. Everything works perfectly now.

Best Regards,

Alvin Cruz