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| ajayshankar |
 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:12 am Post subject: Help needed with ffd conversion |
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Hi all,
We need help in this scenario.
Our backend is mainframe so our data will be binary .So we are using ffd for converting it to xml .suppose we are getting 00000 as a value for a field from backend, it has to be converted to 000.00 through ffd.is there anyway this can be done?
Thanks in advance 
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:02 am Post subject: Re: Help needed with ffd conversion |
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| ajayshankar wrote: |
Hi all,
We need help in this scenario.
Our backend is mainframe so our data will be binary .So we are using ffd for converting it to xml .suppose we are getting 00000 as a value for a field from backend, it has to be converted to 000.00 through ffd.is there anyway this can be done?
Thanks in advance
Ajay |
Standard transformation from COBOL copybook. Broker 101. 
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:48 am Post subject: Re: Help needed with ffd conversion |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| ajayshankar wrote: |
Hi all,
We need help in this scenario.
Our backend is mainframe so our data will be binary .So we are using ffd for converting it to xml .suppose we are getting 00000 as a value for a field from backend, it has to be converted to 000.00 through ffd.is there anyway this can be done?
Thanks in advance
Ajay |
Standard transformation from COBOL copybook. Broker 101. |
And yet, this is the DataPower forum. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:26 am Post subject: Re: Help needed with ffd conversion |
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And yet, this is the DataPower forum. |
 That'll teach me to pay more attention...
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| mqjeff |
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Now if only there were a clear statement of what 'ffd' was, then perhaps the original poster could get some useful advice.
Although presumably there isn't anything that'd functionally difficult about setting field precision and the location of a decimal point in *any* transformation/modelling interface. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Help needed with ffd conversion |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| mqjeff wrote: |
And yet, this is the DataPower forum. |
That'll teach me to pay more attention... |
It's caught me a couple of times....
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| rekarm01 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Now if only there were a clear statement of what 'ffd' was, then perhaps the original poster could get some useful advice. |
'ffd' refers to (Contivo Analyst) Flat File Descriptor files. It's one of the tools that DataPower supports for transforming binary messages. Non-trivial transforms require additional licensing, but with that comes documentation. |
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