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| uniswift |
 Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:37 am Post subject: How to Count number of input parameters from Cobol file |
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I have to manupulate input parametrs from cobol file. I was wandering if there is any function to count those input parameters in compute node.
Please Help
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| kash3338 |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:52 am Post subject: Re: How to Count number of input parameters from Cobol file |
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| uniswift wrote: |
| I have to manupulate input parametrs from cobol file. I was wandering if there is any function to count those input parameters in compute node. |
What do you mean be input parameters? Do you want the number of records coming in? Do you have a message set in place to read the COBOL file? |
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| uniswift |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:08 am Post subject: |
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here is the sample of Cobol input file::
01 XYZ.
03 REPLY-DATA.
05 AB-CDE-FGH.
10 Name PIC X(5).
10 Address PIC X(4).
10 ID PIC X( .
10 Contact PIC X(0.
I want the count of input parameters : Name,Address,ID,Contact i.e
Count = 4
Is there any way to do that ?
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| dogorsy |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:28 am Post subject: Re: How to Count number of input parameters from Cobol file |
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| uniswift wrote: |
I have to manupulate input parametrs from cobol file. I was wandering if there is any function to count those input parameters in compute node.
Please Help
Thanks in advance |
yes, there is. First you will have to convert your cobol copybook to a message set or a dfdl schema which you will use in your compute node. Then you can use the cardinality function to work out the number of fields.
Whoever, I do not understand why you want to do it dynamically, once you have the copybook you know exactly how many fields you have. |
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| uniswift |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:44 am Post subject: |
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Thank for the solution
I want to append all those parameters into one string, and put it into one text file.
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CARDINALITY(InputRoot.*[]), will this function give me the count as 4? |
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| dogorsy |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| uniswift wrote: |
Thank for the solution
I want to append all those parameters into one string, and put it into one text file.
so,
CARDINALITY(InputRoot.*[]), will this function give me the count as 4? |
No. You need to understand the tree structure. I recommend you do some investigation or go to a course to get to know about the different parsers, ESQL, etc. The questions you are asking seem to be to basic. |
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| uniswift |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:34 am Post subject: |
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ya, i am new to wmb
well thanks..  |
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| kash3338 |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:40 am Post subject: |
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Shaman
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| uniswift wrote: |
| I want to append all those parameters into one string, and put it into one text file. |
To do the above, you don't need to do this.
| uniswift wrote: |
| CARDINALITY(InputRoot.*[]), will this function give me the count as 4? |
It would be better if you can tell us what exactly you need to do with the COBOL input. |
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| dogorsy |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| uniswift wrote: |
ya, i am new to wmb
well thanks.. |
Talk to your manager and get formal training. The forum is for when you have a problem or want to discuss something, not for being educated. |
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| uniswift |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| kash3338 wrote: |
| uniswift wrote: |
| I want to append all those parameters into one string, and put it into one text file. |
To do the above, you don't need to do this.
| uniswift wrote: |
| CARDINALITY(InputRoot.*[]), will this function give me the count as 4? |
It would be better if you can tell us what exactly you need to do with the COBOL input. |
Thanks..
Consider this Sample:
01 XYZ.
03 REPLY-DATA.
05 AB-CDE-FGH.
10 Name PIC X(5).
10 Address PIC X(4).
10 ID PIC X(.
10 Password PIC X(3).
I have created message set for this input file.
Name,Address,ID,Password has fixed length of 5,4,8,8 size
i.e input Sample in Input Q should be 55555444488888888333 or abc(2 spaces)def(1 space)ghijkl(2 spaces)mno etc
So, for this cobol i want to generate some random input in text.
Later i will just copy that random input to message Q (I wont be writing the input in message Q manually). |
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| kimbert |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:58 am Post subject: |
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So, for this cobol i want to generate some random input in text.
Later i will just copy that random input to message Q (I wont be writing the input in message Q manually). |
I don't understand *why* you want to do that. What task is this message flow supposed to perform?
Also, which version of the product are you using?
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| uniswift |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| kimbert wrote: |
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So, for this cobol i want to generate some random input in text.
Later i will just copy that random input to message Q (I wont be writing the input in message Q manually). |
I don't understand *why* you want to do that. What task is this message flow supposed to perform?
Also, which version of the product are you using? |
I dont bother what the message flow does, i just wanted to get auto-generated input sample for cobol file...
advantage is that i will not require to prepare it manually
Thanks |
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| kash3338 |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| uniswift wrote: |
I dont bother what the message flow does, i just wanted to get auto-generated input sample for cobol file...
advantage is that i will not require to prepare it manually
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Do you mean to say that you create a message flow just to create sample COBOL messages? That is not what the WMB is for.
After generating input sample for COBOL, what do you do with that? What's your WMB requirement here? |
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| dogorsy |
| Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| uniswift wrote: |
I dont bother what the message flow does, i just wanted to get auto-generated input sample for cobol file...
advantage is that i will not require to prepare it manually
Thanks |
That is not what you said to start with. You wanted to know the number of fields in the input message and to concatenate them together. So before asking questions, get clear in your mind what you want to do. Then read the documentation and try the examples. There are plenty of them to be downloaded and modified. |
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