There are times when someone asks me a question I think is interesting enough to become a post here. This was the question that was the germ for this post:
How can I read a physical file and for each records, use the IFS_WRITE Function to write the [ IFS ] file?
The IFS_WRITE are really three SQL procedures that writes data to a file in the IFS:
IFS_WRITE: Write plain text to IFS file
IFS_WRITE_UTF8: Write UTF8 text
IFS_WRITE_BINARY: Write binary text
In the following examples I am going to use IFS_WRITE_UTF8 as I want the contents of the IFS file to be UTF8 compatible.
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