where the following is true:
- charpos1 and charpos2
- Start and end character positions of a field in each input record that contains extraneous information
- For example:
- Use charpos1 to ignore only the single specified character
- Use charpos1 THRU, to ignore all characters from charpos1 through the end of the record
- Use THRU charpos2 to ignore all characters from the beginning of the record through charpos2
- Use charpos1 THRU charpos2 to ignore all characters from charpos1 through charpos2
- env_var
- Environment variable that provides the value for the specified utility variables (var)
- fileid
- Data source of the external system
- The external system DD (or similar) statement specifies a file:
- var
- Name of the FastExport utility variable that is to be set with the value accepted from the designated source
- Character string values appear as quoted strings in the data file.