This has the following properties:
- Character Set. Choose from ASCII or EBCDIC (not
available for ustring type (Unicode)).
- Default. The default value for a column. This is
used for data written by a Generate stage. It also supplies the value
to substitute for a column that causes an error (whether written or
read).
- Export EBCDIC as ASCII. Select this to specify that
EBCDIC characters are written as ASCII characters (not available for
ustring type (Unicode)).
- Is link field. Selected to indicate that a column
holds the length of another, variable-length column of the record
or of the tag value of a tagged record field.
- Import ASCII as EBCDIC. Select this to specify that
ASCII characters are read as EBCDIC characters (not available for
ustring type (Unicode)).
- Field max width. The maximum number of bytes in
a column represented as a string. Enter a number. This is useful where
you are storing numbers as text. If you are using a fixed-width character
set, you can calculate the length exactly. If you are using a variable-length
character set, calculate an adequate maximum width for your fields.
The property applies to fields of all data types except date, time,
timestamp, and raw; and record, subrecord, or tagged if they contain
at least one field of this type.
- Field width. The number of bytes in a column represented
as a string. Enter a number. This is useful where you are storing
numbers as text. If you are using a fixed-width character set, you
can calculate the number of bytes exactly. If it's a variable length
encoding, base your calculation on the width and frequency of your
variable-width characters. Applies to fields of all data types except
date, time, timestamp, and raw; and record, subrecord, or tagged if
they contain at least one field of this type.
- Pad char. Specifies the pad character used when
strings or numeric values are written to an external string representation.
Enter a character (single-byte for strings, can be multi-byte for
ustrings) or choose null or space. The pad character is used when
the external string representation is larger than required to hold
the written field. In this case, the external string is filled with
the pad character to its full length. Space is the default. Applies
to string, ustring, and numeric data types and record, subrecord,
or tagged types if they contain at least one field of this type.