Support Fixed Position Extract for Multibyte Characters

Previously, the plug-in driven extract batch program supported a fixed-position file format (FIXD) only for single byte characters. When producing fixed-position extract files, space padding was applied based on byte length rather than character count. When the data contained multilingual characters (for example, Chinese), this resulted in fields not occupying the expected number of character positions.

The batch program now supports a new format option (FIXC) for the File Format batch parameter, which produces fixed-position extract files for multibyte characters. With this option, space padding is applied based on character count.

This improves support if you are using multibyte characters data.

Steps to enable and configure

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.