Working with fixed width files

Following are the steps that you will have to perform to work with fixed width files:

1. In the Designer, go to Tools | Source Analyzer to open the Source Analyzer.
2. Go to Sources | Import from File...:

1. Browse the files you wish to use as source files. We are using EMP_SRC_FILE as reference to import the fixed width file.
2. The flat file import wizard will come up.
3. Select the file type--fixed width.

1. Click on Next:

1. As against the delimited files, we will now need to set the width of each column as per the requirement. This will help us in dividing the file in a proper column-wise manner.

1. Click on Next:

1. Specify the columns name, data type, and precision in the data view option. You can edit the column names and other details in this view:

1. Click on Next.
2. Click on Finish to get the source imported in the Source Analyzer as shown in the following screenshot:

We now move on to the last section of working with sources, that is creating Source options.