TRIMSPACES | NOTRIMSPACES

Valid For

Extract and Replicat

Description

Use the TRIMSPACES and NOTRIMSPACES parameters to control whether or not trailing spaces in a source CHAR column are truncated when applied to a target CHAR or VARCHAR column. TRIMSPACES and NOTRIMSPACES can be used at the root level of the parameter file as global ON/OFF switches for different sets of TABLE or MAP statements, and they can be used within an individual TABLE or MAP statement to override any global settings for that particular MAP or TABLE statement.

TRIMSPACES is applied only to single-byte white spaces (U+0020). Ideographic spaces (U+3000) are not supported.

For Extract, TRIMSPACES only has an effect if Extract is performing mapping within the TABLE statement (by means of a TARGET statement).

Default

TRIMSPACES

Syntax

TRIMSPACES | NOTRIMSPACES

Examples

Example 1   

The following example uses TRIMSPACES and NOTRIMSPACES at the root level of the parameter file. The default of TRIMSPACES is in effect until the last MAP statement, to which NOTRIMSPACES applies.

MAP fin.src1, TARGET fin.tgt1;
MAP fin.src2, TARGET fin.tgt2;
MAP fin.src3, TARGET fin.tgt3;
NOTRIMSPACES
MAP fin.src4, TARGET fin.tgt4;

Example 2   

The following example uses NOTRIMSPACES within a MAP statement to override the global default of TRIMSPACES. The default applies to the first two MAP statements, and then NOTRIMSPACES applies to the last two targets.

MAP fin.src1, TARGET fin.tgt1;
MAP fin.src1, TARGET fin.tgt2;
MAP fin.src1, TARGET fin.tgt3, NOTRIMSPACES;
MAP fin.src1, TARGET fin.tgt4, NOTRIMSPACES;