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Boolean
PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 8:24 am    Post subject: Packed fields in AS/400 - CWF or TDS Reply with quote

Acolyte

Joined: 05 Jun 2003
Posts: 56
Location: Sweden

I'm going to map messages from an AS/400 (EBCDIC) to Windows.
The AS computer uses packed fields and I have read that the CWF format can deal with this. On the other hand people tell me that CWF is for COBOL and C struct mappings and that I should use a TDS format.

Does anyone have any experience on this?

/Anders
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EgilsJ.Rubenis
PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Acolyte

Joined: 18 Nov 2002
Posts: 63
Location: Germany, Alfeld

Hi Anders,

I'm dealing with Data coming from SunSolaris as XML and converting
to OS390. On the Output I'm Using a CWF Format with packed decimals signed fields. It works fine so far. We had a problem earlier that was fixed by IBM. I'm not sure anymore what it was, but i think it was in decimal packed fields mapping the last byte failed.

In your case you could define a CWF Message for your incoming message from AS400 and map it to whatever you need. For creating
a CWF mesage you can import your cobol copybook form AS400.
The import generates the structure. Before importing I modified my copybooks, inserting initial values (value space, value zero). Saves
a lot of time because the import generates the elemnets for initial value.
Otherwise it takes some time to do it manually.

Cheers Egils
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Boolean
PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Acolyte

Joined: 05 Jun 2003
Posts: 56
Location: Sweden

Thank you very much for your reply Egils!
I will start to work with the CWF format.

/Anders
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Eyal_Pu
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 4:04 am    Post subject: Egils, about the fix you got from IBM Reply with quote

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Do you remember how it fixed your problem?

We have just encountered that same problem.
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