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| adireddy123 |
 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:38 am Post subject: Uanble to parse testdata with Cobolcopy book |
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Hi
I had one cobolcopy book and testdata
cobolcopy book is excepting 9000 bytes but testdata had only 7200 bytes
some fileds in CobolCopybook are optional ,so size of testdata is less than what cobolcopy book expecting
So i am unble to parse ..Can anyone help me , how to make optional fileds without parsing |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:45 am Post subject: Re: Uanble to parse testdata with Cobolcopy book |
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| adireddy123 wrote: |
| some fileds in CobolCopybook are optional ,so size of testdata is less than what cobolcopy book expecting |
Ok, now back in my day a COBOL copybook described a series of fields. The closest you got to an "optional" field was an OCCURS DEPENDING ON and I'm not entirely convinced a zero was legal there. So how have you achived this? Perhaps you could post the "optional" parts of the copybook definition?
| adireddy123 wrote: |
| how to make optional fileds without parsing |
Well you'll have to edit the message set to indicate those fields may not be present with min occurs. I expect the copybook inport wizard is as confused as I am so you'll have to cook this manually.
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| muralihegde |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:35 am Post subject: |
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Actually we have the scenrio, where we have to parse the data which conforms to a cobol copy book and generate an XML output.
That is the input data comes from a COBOL application.
We are trying to create a message set in MB by importing the COBOL copybook.
There are certain fields defined as optional in the COBOL copybook. Also some fields can occur multiple times.
The message set is created and for optional fields we have made the min occurs as zero and for repeating fields/structures we have the max occurs defined similarly say 999 as the max occurs.
But when we try to parse the input data, we see parsing errors in the message broker, where it does not recognize if some optional fields are NOT present.
How can we construct the message set such that the message broker can recognize that a certain element or a whole structure(type) is optional or repeating? |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| muralihegde wrote: |
| There are certain fields defined as optional in the COBOL copybook. |
Defined how? Post that section of the copybook.
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| ruchir |
| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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CobolCopy book has a REDEFINE property , using this u can make choice in copybook and parse the data accordingly  |
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:21 am Post subject: |
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So those fields are not 'optional'. If they were optional they would have minOccurs=0. These fields are alternatives - they are members of a choice group.
We cannot help unless you describe your data format in detail, or else post the copybook. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| ruchir wrote: |
| CobolCopy book has a REDEFINE property , using this u can make choice in copybook and parse the data accordingly |
You have to be careful here. A REDEFINE on the copy translates into a choice, but certainly does not make any field optional.
Also I believe that once you have made a choice as to which branch of the choice you use, that's it. No come back and parse this part again with the other branch. So both on receiving and sending you have to be able to determine, in your program, which branch to take, BEFORE you hit the choice point.
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| ruchir |
| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| muralihegde wrote: |
| How can we construct the message set such that the message broker can recognize that a certain element or a whole structure(type) is optional or repeating? |
There is a propery in message set :
Goto properties for that element and select physivcal properties . In physical properties there is 'Occurences'. You can select Repeat reference variable there to restrict the occurence of that element. Hope it helps
| fjb_saper wrote: |
| A REDEFINE on the copy translates into a choice, but certainly does not make any field optional |
yup u r rite. It just makes the field to have choice but don't make it optional. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:47 am Post subject: |
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In addition to endorsing the comments of my associates (a REFDEFINES is not an optional field but a choice), I'd like to point out this is actually mentioned in the InfoCenter.
So for the record the OP's problem is that the test data is 1800 bytes too short.
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