User Guide : Map Connectors : Source and Target Map Connectors : Tape Drive Sequential
 
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Tape Drive Sequential
The Tape Drive Sequential connector uses a binary connection that works with sequential data streams. The linear data streams can either be a sequential file or a named pipe. The integration platform cannot detect file length or end of file with this connection. It can only read one byte at a time in a forward direction.
Connectivity Pointers
To connect to a named pipe, enter the path and name of the pipe in this format:
\\.pipe\pathandname
You cannot browse to a pipe, or list pipe names in any way. You must already know the name and path to the pipe. It must be local or on the local network. The integration platform treats pipes like files.
A source connection with a pipe continues to run until the pipe is closed by the application that created it.
Property Options
You can set the following source (S) and target (T) properties.
Property
S/T
Description
StartOffset
S
If your source data file starts with characters that need to be excluded from the transformation, set the StartOffset option to specify at which byte of the file to begin. The default value is zero. The correct value may be determined by using the Hex Browser. For a list of the 256 standard and extended ASCII characters, search for "hex values" in the documentation.
Note:  This property is set in number of bytes, not characters.
RecordSeparator
ST
When a binary sequential file is your connector and you are using a 01 copybook to define the fields, you may have a record separator at the end of each record. If so, you may specify the record separator here. This causes the integration platform to automatically ignore the record separator when it reads the source data. The default is "None". The available list of separators are None (default), carriage return-line feed, line feed, carriage return, line feed-carriage return, form feed, and empty line.
CodePage
ST
This translation table determines which encoding to use for reading and writing data. The default is ANSI, the standard in the US.
Data Types
The following data types are available:
16-bit binary
16-bit logical
24-bit binary
32-bit binary
32-bit IEEE floating-point
32-bit TEC binary
32-bit VAX floating-point
64-bit binary
64-bit IEEE floating-point
64-bit VAX floating-point
8-bit binary
80-bit Intel floating-point
AccPac 41-bit binary
Binary
Boolean
Btrieve date
Btrieve time
Column binary alpha-numeric
Column binary multi-punch
Column binary numeric
Comp
Comp-1
Comp-2
Comp-3
Comp-5
Comp-X
Complex
Cray floating-point
Date
DateTime
dBASE Numeric
Display
Display Boolean
Display date
Display Date/Time
Display justified
Display sign leading
Display sign leading separate
Display sign trailing
Display sign trailing separate
Display time
Interval
Interval day
Interval day to hour
Interval day to minute
Interval day to second
Interval hour
Interval hour to minute
Interval hour to second
Interval minute
Interval minute to second
Interval second
Interval year
Interval year to month
Magic PC date
Magic PC extended
Magic PC number
Magic PC real
Magic PC time
Microsoft BASIC double
Microsoft BASIC float
Name
Null-terminated C string
Packed decimal
Pascal 48-bit real
Pascal string (1 byte)
Pascal string (2 bytes)
Sales Ally date
Sales Ally time-1
Text
Time
Time (minutes past midnight)
Variable length IBM float
Zoned decimal