Writing a file of Fixed Length Records

CloverDX Platform
1

I am using CloverETL 2.4.3 and I have tried using the Fixed Data Length Writer and Universal Writer and neither are working as expected.

Fixed Length Data Writer is placing ‘null’ value (^0 in unix) and when I transfer that to windows, Textpad shows that as a big black pipe in each throughout the data.

Universal Data Writer doesn’t write out anything ugly like that null value in the Fixed, but it doesn’t stop at the end of the record at 223 bytes. I have a record delimiter set up on the metadata but it continues to write all the data out on one line. Why is that?

Here is a simple test graph I have been trying to configure to get this to work before putting into my final graph.





















































<![CDATA[${out.0.EMPI_ID} = ${in.0.memidnum};
${out.0.BEST_ID} = ${in.1.memidnum};
]]>






2

I’ve also tried this changing the record delimiter to \r\n and it had no affect. The output of the universal data writer continues to place all data onto one line.








3

It seems there are bugs in the writers. I’m afraid you can’t do it with current Clover version.

4

Both bugs were fixed. The fix is available in SVN branch 2.4 and will be in nearest release.

5

Thank you for the quick response. When is the next 2.4 release? I tested the 2.4.4 version and I experienced the same behavior.

6

Version 2.4.5 was released yesterday.