Export file and the use of Append -a

[Dennis Malen]

This is my problem. I have clients that I report to with the use of an
Export Ascii file. The files could be one of three types:

1. Fixed Length
2. Tab Delimited
3. Comma Delimited

The following are my definitions for each:

1. export ascii rnf=(pn) r=\r r=\n -x -a
2. export ascii rnx=(pn) r=\n f=\t -a
3. export ascii rna=(pn) r=\n f=, o=" c=" -a

The problem is that when we attempt to append to (1) (the fixed length) it
rewrites the file. It does not append. Comma delimited (3) works fine and
Tab delimited (2) works on one client file and does not append to another
client file. The Tab delimited works fine in other processing that I have so
that is probably something I'm doing wrong in the processing (Maybe).

My immediate concern is the Fixed Length (1). The append (-a) does not seem
to work. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong with the -a in the Fixed
Length (1) definition.

Thanks,

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912