-P tbcconv option
The pad sizing (-P) option of the tbcconv utility command is used to indicate for those items that have the PAD characteristic turned on, the PAD sizing value for the SizedAs property will be changed from Bytes to Characters. It also determines how the PAD value is sized when the data is being validated and written as output.
Items that have the Pad characteristic are Text, Date & Time and Number. Syntax items have no Pad property.
There are no additional parameters for the pad sizing (-P) option.
For those objects that meet this criteria (the Pad property is set to Yes, and Byte is specified for Text, Date & Time and Number items for the SizedAs property in the schema), when the tbcconv utility command is run with the -P option, the value for the SizedAs property set as Byte will be changed to Character.